Cancun Sportfishing and Scuba Diving

Cancun offers, an incredible number of diverse activities with your charter yacht. Everywhere you go are interesting things to do. The combination of activities and the abundance of nearby archeological sites makes for an incredible charter sportfishing or scuba diving vacation. Your vacation will not last long enough to enjoy all there is see & to do in Cancun.

Cancun and the surrounding area offer some excellent sportfishing opportunities. Deep sea fishing in the outer Caribbean for sailfish, marlin, dorado, wahoo, grouper and bluefin tuna can be incredible. The many nearby inlets, flats and lagoons give anglers a chance to try their luck at catching tarpon, snook, permit and some hard fighting bonefish.

Cancun Island is approximately 16 miles long with the highest point above sea level being 200 feet. The State of Quintana Roo is located 550 miles south of Miami, in the South-eastern part of Mexico. Along the coastline of about 540 miles, there are numerous coral islands and a reef barrier, the second largest in the world. If you are searching for calm, peaceful days to enjoy the sun and the sand, Cancun boasts some of the most beautiful beaches in the world.

For those who go out more for daytime than night-time sports, Cancun, with its beaches of powdery coral sand, is the place to be. Cancun is a snorkel and scuba diving paradise, the lagoon enclosed by the -L- shape of the island, is ideal for sailing and water-skiing. Deep-sea fishing and diving are fantastic in the open sea, which stretches out in shades of light-green to turquoise from the shoreline to the violet-blue horizon.

Cancún, the world-famous beach resort that has become Mexico’s most popular tourist destination and one of the fastest-growing cities in Latin America. If you like Florida’s Gold Coast, you’ll probably love Cancún—a flashy, trend-swept high-rise strip of five-star hotels with beaches as big and beautiful as any in the Caribbean. But even if this doesn’t sound like your idea of a good time, you’ll probably find yourself there on the first and last days of your Yucatán adventure. Almost all international airline flights to the Yucatán now land at Cancún’s airport. Once there, it’s easy to head for any other place by rental car, passenger bus or ferry. Before you think too many disparaging thoughts about this crassly commercial mega-resort city, bear in mind that it will look much more inviting when you return from an expedition into the heart of the Yucatán backcountry. The luxury of a big five-star hotel room with air conditioning and a satellite TV that speaks English, a balcony that overlooks the sea and an elaborate swimming pool complex surrounded by beautiful bodies in bathing suits and a poolside bar make for an irresistible conclusion to your Yucatán adventure.

There is much more to the Quintana Roo Backcountry than just Cancún and the Riviera Maya. The southern half of Quintana Roo remains mostly wilderness and offers a wealth of little-known natural wonders to explore. Foremost among them is the Sian Ka‚an Biosphere Reserve, a federally protected wildlife habitat that fills a large area of coastline and rainforest and includes sheltered bays, deep freshwater cenotes, sawgrass marshes, mangrove and hardwood jungles, islands where birds gather by the hundreds, a unique fishing village that got its start as a pirate’s hideaway and, of course, many miles of lonely white beaches. Other great destinations in the backcountry include Cobá, where lofty forest conceals the overwhelming ruins of the Yucatán’s largest ancient Maya city, and the obscure, fascinating ceremonial center of Kohunlich, which is only beginning to reveal its strange secrets.

Thirty years ago, the northern half of the Yucatán’s Mexican Caribbean coast—now called the Riviera Maya—was unforgiving bush country where common visitors were outlaws and snakes. Today, much of the coast has been transformed into various resorts, from high-class, all-inclusive vacation complexes to clusters of thatched-roof cabañas on remote beaches. Once you turn off the busy, billboard-lined four-lane superhighway, the boundless, impenetrab le jungle protects the coast from the stresses of modern life. The region fulfills just about every dream of paradise. For you perhaps it’s the cast-all-your-cares-away mood of Isla Mujeres or the haunting beauty of Tulum, the only Maya city right on the Caribbean Sea. Maybe you’re going for snorkeling and scuba diving, unparalleled in these see-through waters. Divers flock to Cozumel for some of the best underwater scenery on earth. Or maybe your idea of heaven is swimming, tennis and golf in the middle of winter.

Cancun is blessed with the incredible powdery white sand beaches which seem to be exclusive to the Caribbean sea. The combination of the warm crystal clear water and the soft warm sand make for near perfect conditions. The most popular beaches seem to be anywhere along the Hotel Zone, which runs the entire length of Cancun Island. There are many other beaches near Cancun that are worthy of a day trip.

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