Boat trip to Roqueta Island and its unique echosystem

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When I was a kid and my family, like so many of our friends of Mexico City, started coming to Acapulco regularly thanks to the newly built highways that cut driving time from 20 hours to 6 hours, this Island was my favorite spot. There was the zoo and the view to the extravagant houses of my favorite singers on the peninsula of Old Acapulco, then only known as Acapulco, only a few hundred feet across the strait. But what I enjoyed more than anything else was the actual trip to the island. Glass-bottom boats leave throughout the day from Playa Caleta or the Marina to Isla de la Roqueta via the underwater shrine. For 3 bucks, you get a 45-minute ride during which you see thousands of spiny sea urchins, multicolored fish and a two-ton bronze statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe that somebody sank near a pile of rocks so the glass-bottomed boats could stretch out the ride. The statue was removed because of corrosion, but the boats still stretch out the ride nevertheless, feigning surprise when passing over the shrine where the virgin once was.

Category: Travel
Uploaded: October 15th, 2006 @ 8:32 pm
Author: alexandranunez

Length: 00:14
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