The 1000 Day Holiday

With a name like that, and a scuba tank strapped to your back, you would dive it too.

The Temple of Doom is a Ceynote in Mexico, its name coming from its 3 holes which appear from below as a large mouth and eye sockets of a skull. It has both fresh and Salt water layers, which when you mix them it gives a acid like blurring effect called a halocline.

After jumping a couple of metres into the mouth of the skull with all my scuba gear on, we descended into the darkness.  

As my dive master swam through the halocline, from the side, it appears as if smoke is trailing off him. From behind I couldn’t see anything due to the blurring effect, only the direction of illumination coming from his torch.

Stalactites hanging from the roof, and crazy formations of different colours on the floor and walls meant I spent a lot of time swimming on my side and back to get the full view. Watching your bubbles run up the cave roof almost looking like water trickling uphill was very spacey. The only way to tell depth was by the need to equalize.

After the dives I asked my DM if he had dived other sites around Tulum. He replied he had only dived the reef twice, he lives for cave diving. He has been living in Tulum for 2 years. 

Cave diving, definitely addictive.