Holbox Ferry

This guide traces the ferry crossing to Holbox back to 1969, when a fisherman named Asuncion Mena and his son Amaury began rowing passengers across this water in an engineless wooden boat. You'll hear about the roundabout route travelers once took before a direct line to the mainland existed, and how crews on either shore signaled each other across the lagoon with burning coconut peels when the motor failed. It follows how that small family operation grew into the company still running the crossing today.