5C's Que Pasa

…is it a conspiracy to keep us sleepless in Mazatlan?  First the iguana or possibly it was a grande gecko and now a mouse.  Yes we have a mouse in the house.  Well not exactly in the house but between the walls and at 5 AM up in the ceiling.  We may just have to [...]

…what we see and how we look!

He is more that just a fisherman, perhaps also a farmer.  We see his cart go up & down the beach a few times a day.  He often travels alone with just the pony following behind, trying to keep up with its mamma.  But most evenings at sunset you will find him and a helper, [...]

Was it a scorpion or a spider? How many lives does that girl have?  Was it not enough that she gave us a good scare in Acapulco with kissing the poisonous frog?  Not really because then she decided to have a go around with a tarantula!  She was extremely lucky to survive that one!  Then [...]

First of all Happy Thanksgiving to all my US readers! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From the Mazatlan News today: MAZATLAN .- Finally Barron ejidatarios reached a settlement with the tourist development Estrella de Mar, on the basis of three agreements. The first was to remove the camp of the ejidatarios in Estrella de Mar and the commitment to [...]

Yesterday morning our neighbors who were heading into Mazatlan via the road were turned around by a blockade created by the Ejido of Barron.  These people are in a dispute with the resort Estrella del Mar.  Something to do with uncompleted payment for land purchased to build the golf course, homes and condos. We became [...]

I spend a good part of my day sitting in my garden reading, watching the ocean, the beach activity and enjoying visits by butterflies and hummingbirds.

What do they do all day after digging for crabs and chasing the waves?

So much to see and do and so little time to do it all.

The other day we drove into Mazatlan to buy essentials.  We probably won’t have to drive in again for 4-6 weeks. Colin was driving and I was not navigating and we got lost.  So much fun when this happens as you never now what you will find. We found a wonderful vivero but the prices [...]