Weather conditions will also sometimes cause periods of high seas affecting all water sports. During periods of rough seas you may not be able to enter the water for either swimming or boating. The rugged terrain continues into the sea with rocky outcroppings jutting from the sandy bottom. The rocks support coral growth but not the large reefs that you find in places like Cozumel. Visibility is typically 50' but varies with wave action, wet season runoff, and by location.
Sea life is abundant.
Unlike Puerto Angel, most of the decorations here are intact. The brujos powder the fauna to make folk medicines. Here in Huatulco, the fisherman quickly learn that tourists pay more to see the life than brujos pay to consume it. Our fish life is miraculous. This coast serves as a nursery for most of The tropical waters in the Eastern Pacific.