5C's Que Pasa

Back from our morning beach walk. Usually the girls use the ramp but today certain iguana scents were distracting them.  What is that green thing growing in the sand? More about that later.

I really like the changes I made to the south side of my front garden. The colors make it pop.

Carmeh is back on the hunt.

She wants to get out of the yard by jumping. No more. Twice was too much so we have penned her in with more of a barricade.

Colin was leaving at noon for a four day trip to Culiacan and some serious guitar music.  Carmeh of course was not making it easy for him to pack.

She truly wanted out so that she could find that iguana. As you can see we had to reinforce the fencing so that she could not get out.

Colin even duck taped the opening to the drain pipe as a deterrent to the iguana to just come and sit on our wall and taunt the girls.

Once back home I noticed how large Colin’s papayas were growing.  Sadly we will be long gone before they are ready to eat.  Hopefully next fall we will be able to enjoy the fruits of our  labor.

It was a loud day on the beach. Sunday the locals come out to play and today ATV’s were flying back and forth across the sand.  This family stopped a passing mariachi group to play and play they did for a long while.  I got to enjoy the music as they were just in front of our site.

This has been the coolest winter we have had in at least six years and it was nice to see all the families come out and enjoy the beach.  Each vehicle has speakers emitting some very loud music.  It can be a bit much at times.

While checking out the beach I looked down and it seems that I am growing either a melon or a squash. Who else do you know besides me who grows things in the sand?

My Aloe Vera plant is in bloom.

Once again as the sun set the girls settled down, except now they kept watching for Colin to return.

I was glad to see the sun set as it meant that I could go to bed very early. It had been a long day.

As you know we have had iguanas around who love to eat our hibiscus.

This guy spent the last few days just sunning himself on the RV park beach fencing.

He is much larger than the one I have spotted on my plants.

Two days ago the girls spotted him.

This is not the first time they have spotted him as he has been in our yard off and on.  They know what the iguana scent is. The iguana is sitting on top of the fence post, his head is in that small square at the top.

But it is the first time that they have been able to corner the critter.

They would not stop their baying and barking.

Quite the commotion.

Somehow it got away and we corralled the girls into the yard.  Colin saw it go into our drainage pipe.  The girls know it is in there and have dug down to the pipe thru our pea gravel.  Caeli is checking everything over in fine detail.

Carmeh wants to get the iguana so badly that she actually did jump over the wall once.  The worse thing possible for her fragile back.  Can you see her panting  pink tongue?

She really wants to get into that drain pipe.  As you can see she was determined to go thru the fencing.

Here you see water running out the drain pipe.  Colin put the hose into the top of the pipe under our RV to try and flush out the iguanas.  Yes, plural.  He saw three of them in there.  The girls were hoping to catch an iguana but that never happened.  The only thing that came out was a bunch of poop and some dead flowers.

Sunset came and the iguana situation calmed down.

Finally a relaxed end to the day.

As we left our site and headed to the panga I could see that the sunset was going to be amazing.  I took this just as we boarded the lancha.

Yes it was pretty amazing.

Spectacular.

The light was low but still an outstanding view.

We were on our way to Casa Haas, just a block off the Plazuela Machado where we were meeting long time blog readers Jenny and Brad.   We were there to listen to a classical guitar concert.

Jaime Soria was the performer last evening.  He was very good.  The guitar he played was built in 1936.  He discovered it in Mexico City a few years ago and had to reconstruct the instrument which was a full year project. He used the same luthier that Colin did when he had his guitar refurbished.  Abel Garcia is considered the best luthier in the world.

Jamie recognized Colin from years past when they both attended the Culiacan Festival.

After the concert , the four of us headed over to La Bohemia in the Plazuela Machado for a late dinner.

Last Sunday we took a drive to the other end of the peninsula.

Condos for rent and for sale. Taken from the EDM website.  All with an ocean view.

There are lots on the ocean for sale and a few lovely homes have been built so far.

Other homes have been built along the golf course.  Yes that is a spot at the top of the shot, on the lense of my new camera.  Dang!

We have friends here who own a condo and another who has a lot along the golf course but just can’t give up living in the village on the Isla.

We don’t golf but our golfing friends say that the Estrella golf course is superb. Often many of the RVers will head out for a day on the links.

We instead decided to head out for a drive, a tour of the area and of course lunch.  The view is one of the best anywhere.

We met Diane and Pierre for drinks and lunch at the clubhouse. There is also another restaurant at the EDM hotel.  So nice to be able to have a gourmet meal just down the road from Tres Amigos RV Park.

During our luncheon we saw heavy grey smoke snaking horizontally across the sky, paralleling the entire 9 miles of beach.  Apparently the yacht caught fire almost directly in front of our RV Park.  The burning vessel was towed out to sea by the coast guard where it sunk.

After a relaxed and entertaining meal our friends continued on with their golf game. Great form Pierre!

Thanks for the invite Diane. For certain we will meet you for lunch yet again.