Isla Mujeras: Drive Around the Island

By the 4^th day on Isla Mujeras we were finally feeling well enough to leave our hotel for more than a few hours. We looked into whale shark tours but didn't book one since we were sure how we would be feeling the following day, and then took a drive around the island on our bike. The island is only 4.5 miles long, and 1 km wide, so the total mileage on the bike round trip was only 15 miles and took us about 31 minutes, not including stops. We still had fevers and weren't feeling our best, so we stopped to take some pictures and walked around a little but since we had our helmets and long sleeves on (protection for the bike) we didn't linger anywhere too long. Actually there isn't much to do in Isla; there are some tourist attractions including a Dolphin Discovery, a zoo, a zip lining park and some other misc. places to visit, but the drive itself is very scenic and we were happy just to be out of the hotel. 

We passed this sign and had to turn around to see what a floating bottle island actually looks like.

And this is what it looks like. Is it really floating atop of bottles? I guess I could have found out if I wanted to pay the few bucks to enter, but I didn't pay, and now I don't know.

This is the northern point on the island, and upon entering the view point area you see this massive statue, hinting that there are many iguanas surrounding this point. Sure enough, when you look over the edge of the view point, there are dozens of iguanas hanging out sun bathing on rocks just like this statue.

Goddess of fertility on Isla Mujeras. In English Isla Mujeras means Island of Women, so this makes sense.

There is also a museum/art park at the same point covered with statues like this one, but costs 2-3 bucks to enter and since we could zoom in with our cameras to view each one we didn't feel the need to enter.

One of the biggest things to do on this island is to rent a golf cart and drive around the island. Since we've been here, we've seen hundreds of gulf carts traveling around the island, to bars, and out to eat. I hear it takes about 2 hours to get around the entire island with a golf cart, which is a nice leisurely pace. It looks like fun and if we didn't have a motorcycle we might have done the same thing.

There are lots of Caribbean style buildings in Isla, something you don't normally see this far north in Mexico.

We had some lunch and then waited around for a while to watch  how our stomachs would settle before hitting the beach and watching the sunset. We went for a swim and a short walk before heading back home while promising ourselves that tomorrow we would finally book a whale shark tour, no matter how bad we felt!