5C's Que Pasa

Yesterday was a very high tide and today even more so. Full moon and super moon.

My nineteen pots have been placed in the back area away from the ocean breezes. Hopefully they will do well while we are away. Ismael will water them for me. We even left a hose there for him.

Our last beach walk was yesterday at close to low tide.  You can see how far to the left the sand is dark from the tide going out.

A final adios happy hour.

My final Isla sunset of the season. Nice to have four boats in the bay.

Four of us left today, three from the back row.  Tom and Mandy are still on the extreme right behind that big 5th wheel.

Our site is ready for the next RVer who just so happens to be friends of ours. Sad that we won’t see them but I know they will enjoy the beauty of the Isla.

Always hard to say adios to my plants. They have been blooming so wonderfully this winter.

Almost ready to drive off. A few more hugs goodbye and we did leave.

Oh no, not the road again. Looks like they are getting ready to do the paving.

We had to get them to move the backhoe and we were good to go.

I expect that this new overpass will be completed by next November.

The only annoying issue today was this doble remolque/double trailer who had a top heavy load in his back trailer.  He was swaying left to right all over the place, an accident waiting to happen.  You can see here how the back trailer sways to the right showing some of the steadier front trailer.  I took the photo from the passenger seat so it was really worse than in the photo.

A load of tomatoes.  Colin wondered about  the tomatoes at the bottom.  He called them crushed tomatoes.  As we passed the truck he could see some juices running out from the bottom of the truck bed.

Stopped at Pemex 3970 @ km 75 once passed the final toll after Culiacan. Peace and quiet and free internet are the main draws.  We did fuel up here @ 22.44 pesos per litre.  Prices keep going up.

We drove 195 miles today, a 4.5 hour drive from Tres Amigos RV Park.  Los Mochis where most Rvers stop for the night is only 135kms further.  We prefer a short first day and a regular full day tomorrow.

So very dry here compared to the Isla. My nose is all stuffed up just because of the dryness. It is going to get worse yet.

The first bit.

Looking emptier.

Where did the plants go? Where did the patio furniture  go?

Power washing the dust screen. It does a great job of stopping  the dust as you can see.

Ann stopped by to say adios.  She enjoyed her glass of vino blanco as I kept power washing.

It was a bit more difficult to get this section done.

This morning Ismael was otherwise occupied and was unable to help Colin take down the dust screen.  Somehow he did manage on his own.

Between us we got a few repairs done to the screen and got it wrapped up for storage.

Then the two taxi trucks came along and it was time to load up our stuff.

Both trucks were full.

Colin got his log / piece of art moved to a safer area on our site.

Off to the bodega.

There have been number of work projects happening in and near Tres Amigos.  Vic also had the fellows who worked on our RV do his.

His paint job was much more involved than ours.  The painters did a great job in protecting the RV next  site over.

Vic had his basements painted all the way around as well as the front and back end. Fabulous result.  Again a perfect paint match.

Next door to us, directly across the dusty road there has been some activity.  We have been told that it will be a new restaurant and later that it is only temporary for Semana Santa.  I guess we will find out next November.

Looks like a lot of work for a temporary project.

Just the other day a few loads of palm fronds were brought in.  A few managed to find their way onto the roof but the rest are still on the ground.  These people work only a few hours per week on this project.

This was an Erik project. He had to take out the window to reconstruct a new window opening mechanism.

Someone thought that it would be a good idea to have some storage sheds available for rent here at Tres Amigos.

It is a very slow going project.

Here they are burning old cardboard egg cartons to keep the noseums away.

These sheds were supposed to be ready by March 15th.  Not even close.

Just a few days ago they poured the cement roof.  Custom doors still need to be made.

We woke up to a high tide. This tent and hammock sleepers  were just that close to the tide line.

After another day of packing as well as cleaning the inside of the RV, including the fantastic fans ( not just the screens) and all the window screens ( thank you Colin ) we were rewarded with a bit of a sunset.

On our walk Friday morning we saw this red van parked where the other RV had been a week or so ago. This appears to now be the  non official boondocking spot on the Isla.  The sky does not lie, it was cool day.

Despite saying that we had our last trip into Mazatlan a few posts back, I did have to go back on Friday to get my hair done at Tippy Toes.

Colin came in to me meet and we headed over to El Fish Market for dinner.  For the first time ever we ate inside as it was too cold to be outside.

The big hair colour reveal.  Not as dark but not as blond as I prefer.  I actually went back to 2011 on the blog and checked my hair colour done here in Mazatlan and this is the first year that I am so dark.  I was really blond all the other years.

This may be our last nice sunset. The past few days have been cloudy and cool.

As we were waiting for our meal a parade of older vehicles when past.

Never a dull moment in Mazatlan.  The parade went on for a long time.

Yesterday, Saturday had us power washing all of our carpets.

Our storage pile has started.

About noonish we drove over to the the Playa Sur embarcadero and went once again into Mazatlan.  I had forgotten my necklace at the hair salon and needed to get it back before we leave.  We walked from Playa Sur to Tippy Toes and back.  That was our walk yesterday instead of a beach walk.  That black blob with a flash of green on the right is the new location of our squatter.  He has built a shelter of sorts on the rocks on the causeway to Goat Island.

Saw this poor plant that really needed water as we walked in.

Interesting looking tiny ??  It had a window at the back and one street side.  The wood they used is very nice and it was a very good construction job.

Once we got back home we did more packing up including harvesting my veggies which we will enjoy before we leave Mexico.

I always check the dates of my canned goods and donate the current dates to Ismael.  I bring home what I can use over the summer and leave behind in storage, items that are good to 2020 and 2021.  The key is writing down what I have left behind so I don’t have to bring it again.  Today we found 24 rolls of paper towels and 42 rolls of toilet paper. Now we don’t have to carry so much next year.  We actually ran out of toilet paper one year.  This year we ran out of Ceasar salad dressing.

Colin found this tiny white frog in the middle of one of the large pots we grew our veggies in.  He must have lived  in there all winter.  I wonder if he was white because he never saw the sun.

Our park, Tres Amigos RV1, remains full.  The RV in the background is actually dry camping in our parking lot. The small trailer was looking for a spot for a few nights.  I think that they did get a spot in RV2 which is also full.  We have a caravan of 13 there at the moment.