5C's Que Pasa

We are very very slowly getting organized for the trip North. I found a bottle of Copper Moon PInot Grigio, our most favorite wine in the Okanagan. We almost buy it by the case in Kelowna. So yesterday when we opened the wine and took our first sip, we stopped and looked at each other!!! It seems that the Oak Leaf purchased at Walmart is just as good. Who knew! Too bad Walmart doesn't sell wine in Canada.

At about 8:00PM ( the time if wrong on the monitor ) the temperature outside is 72F and inside it is 79F.

Sadly the girls and I are feeling the chill. Colin thinks we are poco loco.

It must be getting busier, the taxi trucks from the embarcadero to the beach are really full!

Colin's new favorite spot on the Isla. Rosario ( on the right ) is selling mens shirts for 50 -70 pesos including silk shirts and brands such as Tommie Hilfiger. We have no idea where she gets these shirts but she is selling them for Semana Santa. So far Colin has purchased 7 but he isn't done yet!

Everyone wants to make a few pesos this week. I think this fella has a future in marketing.

It was a good day for this beach vendor when he stopped at this families table.

Thanks for buying it for me Mom!

I just need a shovel and some sand.

Finally everyone goes home or to a hotel and the Isla gets to relax.

I stayed here and he took the girls in on his own. Carmeh escaped and ran up and down the panga!

Fortunately our amiga Mary was on the same panga and took over the care of Caeli.

Seems that the pulmonia ride was a bit breezy. Love that hair do Colin!!!

Somehow between leaving here and coming back on this panga Colin lost Caeli's pink diamond collar and dusty rose leash! He said it must have fallen out of his pocket.

With the extreme tides, there was lots of beach for the girls to roam.

That crab was just waiting for them.

The flying nun????

Caeli swimming out to find the crab Colin had thrown into the ocean. Then she was overtaken by a wave but she handled it just fine.

This family showed up at 7:30AM and began to construct a structure....

They were selling cocos plus water in a bag with a straw plus fruit in a cup, Good for them. They did sit there all day and made very few sales. Everyone says that the masses of people are still coming. However this family had fun from Grampa down to the very very young baby.

I spent the entire day out on the patio enjoying the action. This is one of my favorite sections of my flowers. I believe this hibiscus plant is going to be a tree.

I watched this cabellero ( cowboy ) carefully place his charges before taking their photo. Good for him.

Sunset and our coco family is leaving for the day.

Shortly thereafter this white car came down to beach on the road right beside us, turned left and got stuck!! First Mel, a local in an ATV tried to get them out but no luck. The Ernie came along in his Jeep. Not an easy task.

Ernie got them out but the driver couldn't get himself up the road. He kept turning his tires the wrong way. As you can see the tide was coming in and getting higher wave after wave. Finally a local Mexican got in the car....

...he gunned it and got them out and up the road. Good job!!

That was the surf slapping at our wall. I have never seen the waves crash so high up here on the Isla ever before.

These photos were shot from the front window, no way was I going out at 6:15AM.

What happened to the beach Caeli wonders? You can see how far that log was moved. It use to be beside that tall piece of driftwood. Sadly many of the stick palapas built for Semana Santa were destroyed in the wave surges.

These two kayakers were very brave.

Very high waves the further down the beach you walked. Can you see the surfers at the bottom of the wave?

This one had a good ride.

Our beach was eroded, giving it an interesting scalloped effect.

These brave souls really wanted their 50 peso banana boat ride. They tried 3 times before they got underway. There is one fellow trying to get the banana boat out, he is pushing it from behind.

In the end it took this entire group of people to get the banana boat up and over the crest of the waves....

They crashed and overturned three times before finally hooking up with the speed boat. I would say that they got their pesos worth!

They never got back to the Isla until about 3:30PM and promptly started checking out the photo shots.

Meanwhile I was back watching the beach action. Seems like the military are patrolling the beaches for Semana Santa including the Marines. To the left and middle of the photo in the navy shirt is a marine carrying a thick baton, the guy in the middle is carrying flippers and the fellow on the end had a life preserver! The female marine who is also carrying a baton but smaller and in white followed the three men from several feet behind. Well at least they have female marines!

Once the photo session was over the music lesson resumed. It seems that while waiting for the light to change for a specific photo pose, a guitar lesson took place in Mazatlan at Macaws Restaurant much to the delight of the other patrons.

The music didn't wind down till almost 5:30PM. Rodolfo had to still drive back to Culiacan. Adios amigo. Colin drove him back to the Isla embarcadero where he actually had to wait for a panga, there was a bit of a line. Fortunately he had been able to leave his car on the Mazatalan side of the channel at the embarcadero.

Thursday we went for a delicious late lunch/ early dinner here on the Isla at El Velero . The meal was delicious as was the rest of the evening. We came back to our wee casa and talked and talked and we even broke out the champagne.

This is a 1966 Airstream.

David, Jennifer and Tasmin. A wonderful couple who were only here a few hours. They were catching the Baja Ferry to Cabo on Friday afternoon. We sure hope to meet up with them another day.