When hurricane Wilma came through doing so much damage to the gulf coast regions, many other countries were affected as bad or worse than the US. Cozumel fit into that category suffering great damage to public buildings, infrastructure, and private homes and property. One of the proprties to suffer real heavy damage was a Carnival Line pier at Cozumel. The whole pier, apparently with shops and eateries, was wiped away. The result is that we had to anchor out and use water taxis to get back and forth to the beach. Not that bad really, and we thought of it as part of the adventure. Here the water taxi (a good sized craft in itself, is alongside the Holiday. We are already seated and ready to get to shore.