For reefs, the best snorkeling I did was off the beach at the resort (the resort I went to was in the middle of nowhere ... actually it was really close to Tulum).
For fish sighting the best snorkeling I did was two marine parks (have to pay to enter), one was "Xcaret" (say "Ish caret") and the other "Xel-Ha" ("shell ha"). I forget which one is which now but one of them you can take a ride down an underwater river for about a half kilometre or something. Really cool and creepy at the same time, especially when you can see these crevasses that go down seemingly to the centre of the earth.
Cenotes (sink-holes) are worth seeing too. Again they just go down and down and down into nothingness, hard not to get a sense of vertigo.
Everyone who goes to Cozumel says it's worth it for the diving... I've never been but everyone I talk to says "you really have to go". So .. um .. you really have to go, too.
Enjoy and please take lots of pictures to post back for those of us (ok me) who are stuck in snowy Canada for probably years to come. (Having small kids really changes how easy it is to just "get away for a week or two.")
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-- Tony
My next hobby will be flooding my basement while repeatedly banging my head against a brick wall and tearing up $100 bills. Whee!
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