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 .

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  • Diving

    The main reason we come to Cozumel is to scuba dive. It is well known for its beautiful reefs and fish. Apparently Jacques Cousteau named it the second best diving after the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Most of the dive sights fall within the protected Cozumel Marine Park. According to figures from Mexico’s National… Read more

  • Sponges and Coral

    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… Read more