Feb 06, 2018
Just got back from a 75th birthday celebration for one of the RVers and I must say that it was the best party ever 😀 Nothing to do with the four margaritas I had 🙁 Might have been the live band. I never stopped dancing. Certainly a new high for my Fitbit today. Details to follow.
Feb 05, 2018
The tide has changed so that we can walk early in the morning now which I prefer as it is not so windy. This has been a log weekend here in Mexico so there has been more beach activity than normal. We spent the day people watching.
There were a lot of 4 X 4 vehicles tearing up and down the beach late Saturday night. We found them camped out all along the beach early Sunday morning. There were about 35 that I could count. As you can see they chewed up the sand pretty much all along the beach. They all managed to parade up and down the beach most of the day. They were having a good time.
The heron photo was taken from a distance as we did not want to disturb the bird. We realized that this is the first one we have seen this winter. We used to see a lot of them.
The horse drawn cart came past at the perfect time. The sun is now setting much further to the west.
Quite the sky. One lone sail boat in the bay.
Another wonderful sunset.
Feb 04, 2018
Yesterday was another relaxing day for us.
We left the park to see that the sewer pipes are now being buried but the manhole covers are just starting to be cemented in. See that first tree on the left next to the light pole, there is no way that we could get out without doing damage to our RV. The foliage on the tree needs to be cut shorter so there is enough space to pass under it. Hopefully the two RVs coming in tomorrow are short! We have a caravan coming in a week from today. The road has to be finished by then…..hopefully.
The only road into the colonia has been torn up.
I had to smile at how the girl pedaling the bike is trying to balance her friend who was sitting on the frame of the bike.
So how to get through to the colonia to be able to pick up our laundry? Why by driving through the baseball field of course.
Saw this out in front of the lavenderia/laundry place. Besides all the rust on the bike I don’t get why it is carrying a shovel.
Anyone want to come to the beach party? Saw this posted outside the Super Deli.
This new building is coming along. There is also a new one just up a street from here. This one should have a small water view which is why I assume it was built narrow and high. I could not imagine climbing those stairs everyday. No doubt that these apartments will be rented very quickly at least for every winter season.
Some new artwork along the union bar wall.
Then there was this sweet little girl giving her dog lots of love. I got this shot on the end of our beach walk yesterday.
Then unexpectedly our RV tech showed up. Good thing we were home. Somehow we never got his email telling us that he was coming.
I mentioned briefly in this post about our inverter problem. The new circuit board came while we were in Guayabitos on our road trip. Eric never had time until yesterday to come and install it. He had to take the entire inverter out to replace the circuit board. It took him about 90 minutes. He also has been doing many repairs on our RV, to name a few, rotating the hydraulic line out of the way so that it wouldn’t rub against the slide out during travel ( saving us a future repair ), fabricating and installing a metal screen guard under our radiator ( the old one had worn out ) so that tiny rocks on the road don’t bounce up into the radiator and cause leaks, installed a metal plate to bind together the joint in the beam on our palapa and several other small things. If possible we save any needed RV repairs to be done here mostly because we trust Eric’s repairs and of course because his prices are much much lower than those at home. Our most expensive repair was the inverter circuit board which was $491.00 CAD of which $170.00CAD was the cost to import the part into Mexico. However it was still a better deal than having to buy a new inverter for $2000.00 – $3000.00 USD.
We also ordered new front window curtains complete with a blackout lining. These cost us $135.00 CAD including material and labor. Talk about a deal. Colin installed them himself.
Our next large RV expense will be to replace our two roof air conditioners as they are very badly rusted from all the salty ocean air we subject our RV to. Maybe next year. Of course we would buy the A/C units in the USA and bring them here for Eric to install. Eric can’t believe that they are still functional after 17 years of spending winters on a Mexican beach 😯
Feb 03, 2018
There was a change in the weather yesterday and it was warm and clear for most of the day. In fact it got so hot that it was 89F inside the RV. For the last few weeks we have been hovering at 78F inside. The clouds came in in the afternoon as did the wind but we had a great beach walk. I think I am going into town next week to get a piece of material to use to keep my hat on my head in the wind. I would get a light piece of material and then tie it under my chin if I need to. I really am getting tired of keeping one hand up holding my hat on my head.
Saw these birds all lined up in a row resting on one leg.
A wave came in and they did not move a feather.
Still in place once the wave receded.
Just a bit of color in the sky last evening.
However as it set a bit west over Mazatlan there was a show of color. A perfect end to the quiet day.
Feb 02, 2018
Every Thursday from 3 – 6 PM and sometimes later, El Velero a beach restaurant here on the Isla has a live band.
This year it is vintage rock and roll by a group called Kannon. Last winter it was jazz. One never knows if the place will be full or not. Last night it was packed. We were fortunate in that a young Mexican couple were just leaving so we got their table. Our plan was to have a drink and possibly dinner. We don’t often go out two nights in a row. For some reason I just could not get into the music yesterday nor could Colin. I think that our experience with Johnny O the evening before was so special and so recent that it just was not a good time to heading out again. But we had heard that they were going to be focusing on 60’s music so we thought we should check it out.
The beach restaurant was packed and the staff were doing a great job of serving everyone. This fellow was carrying three buckets of beer on his tray and another in his right hand.
Our table was in an odd corner but we were okay with that. We could still see the band.
Lots of dancing as always. We can actually hear the band from our patio at the RV park and have danced to a few tunes there. But I do like to get there in person as El Velero makes a good margarita.
We enjoyed the music for a bit but decided that we needed to head home and have dinner there.
On the way out we stopped to chat with friends and caught the sunset. You can just make out the Baja ferry leaving on the bottom left.
Once home we had to make dinner and that started with me harvesting kale from one of my pots. Good thing that we were out there as we had a few tipsy RVers walking back that needed some light shed out onto the sand so they could find their way back up into the park.
Not sure how this photo got into my camera 🙂 but it does appear that I was too tired to read my book after dinner.
Two nights in a row is much too much for us but music is a big draw and we don’t want to miss anything.
Here is a longish clip made close to 2 -3 weeks ago by a professional videographer. In fact he was at the original Woodstock back in the day. If you listen to only a few moments you will get a feel for the band and see how very different the music was from the night before with Johnny O.