Chicxulub and Progreso

This one goes out to all the astronomy or paleo nerds out there. I visited Chicxulub today. Of course that is the name of the crater from the asteroid impact 65 million years ago at the K-T extinction boundary. The Chicxulub strike.

There isn't anything to see there of course and no reason to go but I figured I'd go anyway and get some seafood. There are actually two Chicxulubs, Pueblo and Puerto. The first means town and the second means port. I went to Chicxulub Puerto since ground zero is offshore so it's closer although maps usually put a dot on the inland Chicxulub Pueblo.

Getting there was surprisingly easy and fast. There is a good bus connection to Progreso on the coast since it is a big local beach resort. Once there combis leave from the same block to cover the 5 km or so to Chicxulub. The place was even in my guidebook and they recommended a restaurant and that's where I headed. They had some really good seafood. They brought out some ceviche pescado (raw whitefish marinated in lime juice) with my first beer. When that was done I ordered the conch with garlic and worked on planning the next few days of this trip.

I did walk out to the beach and again when I went back through Progreso. The weather was better for kites than swimming and not many people were out. I got back to Merida around dark.