5C's Que Pasa

Dec 08, 2010

Que pasa?

The other day we were rushing to go into Centro but forgot something in the coach. No big deal you say! Not quite! For some reason the door lock had become jammed so Colin had to find another way inside. So now you know how to break into our place!

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Dec 07, 2010

Happy Hounds!!

The girls are so happy to be here. They so appreciate just being with us and enjoy the sun so much. Usually their first walk of the day involves crab hunting.

The other day Carmeh dug down three feet! Later Carmeh will do some frisbee retrieving while Caeli just watches. Playing in the surf is a new favorite.

Caeli wasn’t too keen on going in the ocean last year but seems to enjoy it now.

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Dec 06, 2010

Beach Drive!

Here on the Isla if you have a 4WD vehicle you can drive along the beach. In fact many avoid driving the bumpy dusty road into Mazatlan and just use the beach to get through those first 10 miles and connect to the paved road near Estrella del Mar, the golf resort. The locals simply use the beach as a main road. We don’t have such a vehicle so a beach drive is not an option.

However a week or so ago, our neighbors invited us for a beach ride! I was excited! It was low tide and we were going to search for sand dollars.

Never mind the sand dollars, it was great just being right out there, between the ocean and the jungle. No other vehicles, no tire tracks, just us and nature. I loved it! We did find a few sand dollars and I picked up some shells.

Bella wanted to find a few artsy pieces of palm fronds for her garden so Carl took us into the jungle and manoeuvred down some almost non existent sand tracks. What a great experience, although I will admit to being worried about becoming stuck in the middle of nowhere but Carl is a great driver. He has been coming here for years and seemed to be able to find things with no maps, no GPS, just knowledge and intuition. We saw Jicama flowers just coming into bloom.

We saw limes, called limons here, on trees.

He saved the best for last, a three headed palm tree. The people here on the Isla are quite proud of this tree as it is extremely rare.

They say it has been written about in National Geographic and is one of two in the entire world. Carl was not sure but believed the other three headed palm was possibly in Indonesia.

There is not much else to say but remarkable!!! Curious I later Googled three headed coco trees and discovered that yes they are rare but they are a wee bit more common than we thought. One if for sale for 1 million dollars if you are interested….http://coconutfreaks.blogspot.com/2006/01/three-head-coconut-palm.html#links For the rest of the story check out….http://coconutfreaks.blogspot.com/.

Some of my beach ride findings…

Thanks for the great adventure Bella & Carl.

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Dec 05, 2010

Things that sail past….

Please join me in my garden…

Come and sit with me. Let’s watch what sails past….

Some shrimp boats came rather close to shore in front of RV2. I watched them from my garden.

It’s always fun to check out what private vessels are spending the night in our little cove.

This one decided to move on…

Then I get to watch the Baja Ferry come and go a few times per week. It is a 16 hour one way crossing to La Paz, Baja. It takes everything and everyone, from foot passengers to freight trucks to RV’s. Many rvers do this crossing, eliminating the need to drive the narrow roads of the Baja in both directions. Perhaps some day….

Every now and then a heron will sail past as I sit in my garden…

…and some days the herons just sit out front on the beach!

So much to see from my garden, I haven’t mentioned the small local fishing boats nor the tourist banana boat rides but they too are there before my eyes. A favorite is watching one of the cruise ships leave at sunset…love this artsy photo!