Mexico January 2010

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Sea power- Cozumel


Nohoch Mul- Cobá


Jungle vista, halfway up Nohoch Mul


Sun and Sea- Tulum


Sunrise- Tulum

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1. that pyramid is STEEP

and no handrails!

I love all that stuff--mounds, pyramids, etc. Thanks!

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2. It's the tallest one in the northern Yucatan...

I got about halfway up, turned to take a picture, and saw a hawk swooping beneath me. That was enough for me. My husband went all the way to the top.

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3. Do you have a photo of the hawk?

I think I would have sat down on the steps and waited for the return of the hawk!

I applaud you for going halfway up. Generally I don't mind heights but nothing to hang on to? It wouldn't be that scary going up, but, uh, coming down??? Wow, just wow.

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4. No, I sort of flipped out and scrambled down...

well, as much as one can scramble down a pyramid on one's derriere.

[alfredo]

8. It looked like they had a rope to assist climbers.

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10. They did...

but unlike Teotihuacan, where the rope is mounted at about waist level, this rope was just draped against the crumbling steps.

[alfredo]

11. OK, so you can straddle it and hand over hand your way up and down.

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12. surely!

that's pretty much what my husband did. me, as much as i'm petrified of heights, i had to see where i was going.
that pyramid scared the crap out of me.

[alfredo]

13. I used to be a lineman. I spent my time suspended by a belt

and gaffs. But put me in a building with an atrium and I can't handle it.

I can look down from several stories up



But if I look up at the ceiling, my knees get weak.



I steadied myself against a pillar for this image.

[Mira]

6. I read this and smile. OF COURSE you would have

waited for the return of the hawk.
If I believed in the transfer of spirits from humans to animals, I would think you either are a bird having a human experience, or a human aspiring the next one to be one where you get to fly around.
I love that about you!
:)

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7. I don't really have as much affinity for birds as you might think

It is more of a "challenge" thing. But I do love flying dreams. Instead of having wings, though, I am doing breaststroke in the air!! (At one time I thought of myself as a swimmer). About the only bird that I really truly love is the bluebird. But I have to say that I would love the opportunity to get a picture of a flying hawk from above it, all sitting on a pyramid. That sounds fun.

[Mira]

5. That first photo is fierce and truly shows the power of the water.

What was happening there? The way the water is translucent as it sprays up is wonderful. The others make me want to go to Mexico, and climb high and look. That jungle vista, I bet, it very deceptive in the seeming tranquility.
Thanks for these!
And always stay on the left.
:rofl:

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9. We were on the beach...

at our hotel in Cozumel, except there really isn't much of a beach. It's sea wall and water. Well, the sea was angry that day, my friends...and it was smashing the crap out of the wall.

You never know what's lurking in the jungle. I prefer not to look too closely ;)