A Luxury Vacation Rental as Base Camp in Mexico
January 24, 2008. The New York Times' "Adventure Guide to Mexico" reminds us there's more to our southern neighbor than great beaches.
Off the Yucatan Peninsula, for example, the snorkeling provides spectacular opportunities to have an experience straight out of Jacques Cousteau or Wild Kingdom. These waters are home to the whale shark, the world's biggest fish. They can most easily be found congregating around Isla Holbox from June through September, when seasonal plankton blooms create a smorgasbord for the gentle giants. The Yum Balam Biosphere Reserve protects the coastal mangrove areas, which provide ideal whale shark habitat.
If you'd cas. The NY Times evokes John Steinbeck's novel "The Sea of Cortez," in which the write notes how the area is "ferocious with life." Does that mean even the worst of us anglers will catch a big one? Well, the area has been called rather be in a boat catching fish, rather than swimming with them, try deep-sea fishing off Cabo san Lucas, the marlin capital of the world, with 50,000 trophy fish of various kinds pulled from these waters each year.
