Photos: John and Kristen in Puerto Morelos, Mexico, February 2001

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Captions (in the same order as the photos)

• Leaving for Mexico just after the big snowstorm hit.
• We'll miss all this snow when we're in Mexico.
• Long nighttime exposure, moon one day past full, on the beach outside Los Pelicanos restaurant.
• Dinner at Los Pelicanos (with a statue of an eponym): Kristen, Laraine, a waiter, Millie, Jack, Hisae
• Kristen herding sandpipers at the beach.
• Kristen sneaking up on sandpipers one morning at the beach.
• The beach late in the afternoon.
• Laraine, Kristen, Hisae and Millie at the beach.
• Sunrise over the Caribbean
• Another sunrise over the Caribbean, seen from the Hotel Ojo de Agua
• John and Kristen looking for rays off the pier at dawn.
• The pier just after sunrise.
• Millie taking pictures of the sunrise.
• Sandpipers and tern (?) greeting the new day.
• Reef boat at sunrise.
• Sandpipers taking a rest on the pier.
• John and Kristen, posing on the pier.
• John and Kristen, posing with Hisae's shadow under a coconut tree.
• John and Kristen, still posing under the coconut palm.
• Hisae, Laraine and Millie at the beach in Cancun.
• Sandpipers (more specifically, sanderlings and perhaps the odd ruddy turnstone) at the beach.
• An unusual early morning fog rolls descends.
• Kristen at the beach in the fog.
• Dogs sharing a walk in the fog.
• This fog is getting creepy.
• Foggy enough to obscure the microwave tower!
• Small (80 cm wingspan) spotted eagle ray in 1 m of water, as seen from the pier at dawn.
• A very curious spotted eagle ray.
• A somewhat larger spotted eagle ray trolling for crustaceans in the sand, Hisae in the foreground communing with it.
• Hisae taking a snack break out at the reef, next to the supply raft that we dragged out from the shore, and some coral that has broken the surface.
• In the background Hisae and the supply raft at the reef, a piece of coral that's grown up above the water, Kristen and one of her flippers at the right, at front left photographer John's blue flipper (d'oh!)
• John, the way most fish see him.
• Starfish (species ID?).
• Bar jack.
• Ocean triggerfish.
• Ocean triggerfish, again.
• Ocean triggerfish, still doing barrel rolls to show off.
• Finger coral (check species ID).
• Assorted coral.
• Hisae, John and Kristen return triumphantly from their 2 km (?) swim out to and back from the reef.
• woodpecker (check species) on utility pole.
• Grackles (check species) on coconut palm tree.
• Grackles (check species) on palm trees. This makes a nice desktop picture.
• Winnie feeding Otto the coati.
• Winnie feeding Otto the coati.
• Winnie feeding Otto and Otto the coatis.
• Winnie feeding Otto, Otto and Otto the coatis.
• Otto the coati eating Winnie's dog food.
• Otto and Otto the coatis eating Winnie's dog food.
• Otto, Otto and Otto the coatis eating Winnie's dog food.
• Otto, Otto, Otto and Otto the coatis approaching Winnie for food.
• Otto the coati looking for more dog food on Winnie's porch.
• Blue grosbeaks on Av. Rojo Gomez (thanks to Hugh Currie for the identification).
• House gecko
• House gecko.
• House gecko.
• House gecko.
• House gecko.
• Portrait of the photographer as a zori'd man with hairy legs.
• Portrait of the photographer's wife as a woman who is never without a book to read.
• Never without a book to read. Ever.
• Kristen exhibiting extreme filial and neptic piety in letting her mother and aunt try out the hammocks.
• John and Kristen about to cruise Cancun in Jack's white Beetle.
• Calle 8 and its Cafe Libreria and Mayan restaurant.
• Kristen in her natural habitat, the bookstore cafe "Cafe Libreria" on Calle 8.
• Kristen at the beach. Not as nice as the beach in Puerto Morelos.
• The Caribbean as viewed from Playa del Carmen.
• Art gallery across from 100% Natural. Check local artist ID.
• Kristen smiling down from the treehouse at 100% Natural.
• 100% Natural, part of an excellent chain of restaurants.
• Kristen as seen through the trees in the restaurant.
• Kristen is just blinking, and that is a nonalcoholic beverage.
• Kristen and John on their way out to dinner with (John's aunt and uncle) Jean and Jack Loew.
• Kristen with a mystery plant, identification welcome.
• North end of a southbound pig truck.
• Jean and Steve Hull.
• (John's parents) Jack and Hisae.
• Dinner welcoming the Hulls, with heart of palm Jenga sculpture.
• Millie, Laraine, Jack, Steve, Jean, Hisae, Kristen and John sitting down to dinner at Casa Verde.
• Millie taking party photos.
• Kristen and John celebrating their engagement anniversary.
• Millie and her sister (Kristen's mom) Laraine.
• Millie, Laraine, Jean, Steve, John, Jack, Hisae, Kristen.
• (John's parents) Jack and Hisae.
• (family friend and electrician) Ernesto, (John's parents) Jack and Hisae, seeing us off at the airport.
• Jack, Hisae, Ernesto through security glass.
• Celebrating our return at the Silk Road Cafe: Jeff and Erin, Scott, Millie, Kristen, Laraine, John.