5C's Que Pasa

On the way back we saw the chicken lady, as she is affectionately called, preparing her chickens.  She only cooks these on Saturday and Sunday.  Everyone says they are delicious.  Of course as we don’t eat meat we have no idea.

Just a wee distance past her is the new sushi place that now also serves wonderful Chinese food. First time I have seen the new sign.  Good advertising.  The restaurant is located next to the Pacifico store which is across from the butcher shop which also happens to be a great overall tienda.

Just past that is a new restaurant on the Isla.  No reviews yet as they just opened.

You never know what you will see on your beach walk.  Horses and a tractor or ??

So we were home to watch the sunset.

The wind kept blowing the palm frond back and forth.

As the sun set the colors changed.

…and so ends another day on the Isla.

Random photo of Carmeh soaking her sore toe in Epsom salts.  She was such a good girl.  Love those eyes.

Digging for crabs, one of their favorites activities.

Colorful sunset just an hour ago.

It seemed that we could just keep walking forever. Actually you can walk over 10 miles.  We do between 3 and almost 4 miles on our daily walk.

This is looking back in the direction we came from.  It takes us an hour at a full clip to get this walk done.

Lots of shrimp boats hanging about.

This fellow was getting his walk along the surf.  Hope he caught something.

We decided that we should make an appearance and join one of the happy hour groups.  The lady in blue is with 3 children.  They came up off the beach as one of their group who is very pregnant needed to use the bano.

The truck on the beach is where the family had come from.  It still is cool and most of us are wearing pants and fleece.

The sunset this evening.

This is only one half of the RV, the other side is my computer and eating table piled high with papers.

My view out the front window yesterday morning ( a cool 63F ) as I sat at my desk and computer.

We had been invited to a party yesterday afternoon from 2PM to dark.  The host was the fellow with his arm up in the air.  First time we had been to his rented home even though we have chatted on the beach almost everyday during the nine years that we have been here.  He generally keeps to himself.

The party was in honor of Carol ( on the left ) and her husband Gary, an American artist.  They had rented a home here on the Isla for seven years but now reside in Maine.  The lady on right was from Quebec and interestingly  enough I literally bumped into her today while in Mazatlan.

That is Gary chatting with Colin.  It was not a large party, about a dozen of us but that allowed for some special conversing time.

The food was amazing, carne asada, shrimp, robalo, baked potatoes and sweet potatoes and a variety of salads.

Meanwhile back at the RV park, staring about 5PM, there was a genuine bonfire and wiener roast, just in front of the RV park.

Once we got back to the RV about 6:30PM we headed down to the beach ( after putting on warmer clothes ) to say hola and had a chat with everyone.  We had not been back in the RV very long when we heard the bang and then we lost power, about 8PM or so.  Apparently the power came back on about 5AM.

Friends Ron and Kathleen were leaving this morning but got quite the surprise when they stepped outside of their RV first thing.  Their patio and carpets were saturated with water.  In fact water was surrounding the three 45′ Class A’s you see in this photo plus a few more to the right of the photo.  The fellow in the middle RV had been filling his water tank when the power went out.  Not sure what he did but we think he forgot to move the valve off of tank fill or ??   So when the power came on early this morning the water pump started to work and kept filling his tank and it overflowed all over the place until he woke up and went outside to discover the flood.  Fortunately the sun came out today and with the help of 3 fans Ron’s mats got almost perfectly dry before they pulled out closer to 10:30AM.  There was no harm done to anyone other than the wet patio mats.

We were not here to say adios to Kathleen and Ron as we were off to find Carol and Gary. Colin wanted a photo with Gary which we had neglected to do last evening.

They are staying here on the Isla at the Stone Island Gardens Hotel.  A photo with me had also been taken but I guess it wasn’t on my camera.

We didn’t stop too long as we were off to Mazatlan to do some food shopping and a few errands.  This Glovis car carrier had been waiting out front of us for close to a week if not longer.  Finally the cars had arrived for them to start loading.  We also got to watch the ship on the left being turned around by two tug boats and parked.  Never a dull crossing on the lancha to Mazatlan.

So yes as you saw in the previous photo there was a cruise ship in port.  Lots of folks just walking about.  This was the first time I have seen this ‘Fun Bus”.  It was so long that is had to back up in order to complete the turn.

Back on the Isla we had to deliver our laundry to the lavenderia in the colonia.  Our plan was to do it on the way into Mazatlan. Well the sewer construction continues and we could not get into the colonia. Both the only road in as well as the alternate road through the baseball diamond were blocked.  So once we were back on the Isla we attempted it again.  We got through and parked at Feddy’s store for a moment next to this mound of dirt.  Suddenly a grader appeared and we had to get out of the way quickly.  Never a dull moment around here.  We did get the laundry dropped off.  Hope we will be able to pick it up 🙂

While Colin went into Feddy’s, I happened to notice how this vine was growing and hanging by its roots along the underside of the cement overhang.  Another example of the force of nature.