In the week that DW and I spent in Mexico, we donned our snorkel gear each day—sometimes, a couple of times a day—and went into the bay that was just a few steps from our resort.
From February 14 (Valentine's Day!) to the 19th, we spent several hours exploring the grassy patches and coral reefs, in search of marine life. We were not disappointed.
Each time we snorkeled in Akumal Bay, I took my trusty Insta360 One X, in its dive case and on a metre-long stick. While I would always be on the surface of the water, I could extend my arm and the camera straight down, in front of me, or to the sides (I dangled it behind me, once, as I swam, but the video footage wasn't great—just flippers and lots of bubbles).
I was careful to keep my distance from the sea life. In post-production, I could zoom in on a subject so that it would fill the frame but the camera was never closer than a metre or two (making me more than a metre, further away).
I was able to capture footage of so many tropical fish. I had a few encounters with sting rays, though only one video clip was good enough to share. Many days were windy in Akumal Bay, and as a result the tides kicked up a lot of sediment and made the water too murky to record decent footage.
Of the more than two hours of video that I shot, I was able to boil it down to a video that is just over nine minutes. I've added it to my Brown Knowser YouTube channel, and I have it here.
I hope you enjoy it. It's certainly a calming distraction from what's going on in the world.
And the turtle steals the show (we saw it on our first day of snorkeling and again on our last one).
I made a second video, over the weekend, where I walk around our resort, but after watching it on YouTube, I deemed that the video quality wasn't good enough and pulled it down. I hope to improve it and post again in the next day or so. Stay tuned.
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