Sponges and Coral

Stepping off the edge

Owlmother's adventures

Picking up where I left off… kinda

I started a blog called Stepping off the Edge when I left my comfortable middle class and middle age life in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and headed to Adelaide, Australia to return to school in 2012.

For 8 years I blogged about events in my life…family weddings, birth of grandkids, travel. I no longer own the email address associated with that blog so couldn’t continue, hence starting over in this space.

So I picked up where I left off with our trip in fall 2024 to Europe and will continue with India and the Maldives .

We’ve seen such beautiful landscapes in the ocean! So many different kinds, shapes and colours of sponges. There are purple and red and yellow and blue – really all the colours in the rainbow. Sponges aren’t plants. They’re actually invertebrate animals.

Since 2008 the number of cruise ship docks in Cozumel have doubled so that at any one time there can be 6 ships in port. We worried that the increase in boats would damage the reefs. Fortunately, the reduction in ships and people during the three years of COVID have allowed the reefs to flourish!

Here are my photos of some of what we saw underwater on our dives including a dive site called Sponge Garden.