Originally Posted by
pbiflyer
Crocodiles in Coba????? Dammit, we stopped there at the end of a very long hot day. Wish we would have known about the crocs. Coba was cool. Pay the guys to pedal you to the main pyramid though.
Just passing the Cobá site on your left, you’ll see a lagoon. It is home to a goodly number of Morelet’s crocodiles (these live in brackish water, but can be found in sweet and salt water, and can occasionally be spotted cruising the beaches in Tulúm or even Cozumel). Morelet’s crocodiles don’t grow as large as the American crocodiles you can see in Panamá etc. (Tárcoles River in Costa Rica is pribably the most common place for seeing very large - 12 feet and longer - crocs.)
There’s also a decent restaurant nearby, which has good vegetarian dishes too, named “El Cocodrilo”.