Beach
Playa Akumal
Palm-fringed turtle bay with calm snorkeling water and old shipwreck cannon lining the shore.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Playa Akumal, south of Playa del Carmen, follows a band of Mexican frogmen in the late nineteen-fifties, led by the hunter and diver Pablo Bush Romero, who came to this bay looking for a Spanish merchant ship lost in a storm in seventeen forty-one. It touches on the sports club they founded, the promise it made to the government, and a coast that could still only be reached by boat. Best heard standing on the sand, facing the bay.
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