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<\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\nThe next day was the shark dive. These whale sharks are surface filtration feeders even though they have rows of small teeth they don\u2019t bite. They come to this area of Mexico to feed on plankton and tuna eggs. Facing them in the water was like looking at a large, slow bus with a 5\u2019 wide mouth coming at you. These sharks can get to 60\u2019 in length but the ones we swam with were mostly 25-35\u2019. We were lucky to have 3 swims with them. Afterward, the boat crew treated us to ceviche, mango, guacamole, tequila, and beer. Overall, it was a remarkable experience. See one of the dives.https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ytBCJCx2ufF-5HN6R_aJWqKNVZE2Ukla\/view?usp=drive_link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n On the last day we visited the Mayan ruins of Tulum, a 1,000-year-old city and one of the best-preserved coastal Mayan sites. Following that, we dove in another Cenote Chun Ya. This cenote cave was an impressive snorkel tour. The bats made it a little spooky, flying between our heads just above the water and only a foot or two below the stalactites. Another great Father\/Daughter trip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whale sharks! This year\u2019s father\/daughter trip to Playa del Carmen was an unforgettable swim with these huge gentle monsters.We started the 3-day adventure with a short snorkel in the Cenote Minotauro. Cenotes are underground water systems, some open, partially open, or completely underground caves. The Mayan used them for water sources and sometimes for humanContinue reading “Father\/Daughter Trip August 2025”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hiking","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.whitethaiger.net\/hikers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/10-whale-shark.jpg?fit=1494%2C751&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9x9nh-2ol","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/hikers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/hikers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/hikers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/hikers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/hikers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9197"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/hikers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9221,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/hikers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9197\/revisions\/9221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/hikers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/hikers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/hikers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitethaiger.net\/hikers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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