Monday morning 4 of the rigs have moved on so we are down to 6 rigs in the park. 2 have gone further south while 2 are heading back to BC, planning to be home by Feb 15th.
When we arrived home after swapping the medium fins for the medium-large fins, we discover the box is marked medium-large but inside one is medium-large but the other is medium. That means another trip to Bucerias.
Today, we drive back to Bucerias. Friends informed us there is a 9-day festival on in the centre of town. We wander through the town but we are too early -- 11 am and many of the vendors are not open. We did find a general store selling inexpensive boogie boards and purchase one for Bev for $250 pesos. We stroll by the waterfront. The beach here is better for swimming than in Lo De Marcos as it is on the north side of the bay and does not have the large waves. By noon many of the vendors still were not open so we head off to the surf shop to get the flipper fiasco straightened out. It turns out that they don't have a medium-large pair and we get a full refund. Now we have to search out another surf shop.
We head north west to La Cruz de Huanacaxtle. La Cruz has the largest marina in the area, and is a big or bigger than the one in Puerto Vallarta. We last visited the waterfront in La Cruz in 1998 and can not recognize any of the places we had visited. The place is no longer a sleepy little fishing village – there has been a lot of development to accommodate the tourists. No surf shop.
Next stop on our travels is Sayulita, a town known for the surfing activity – a very popular tourist area. We stroll the beach area. The waves here are much better for surfing than in Lo de Marcos. Most of the tourists are a much younger crowd, here for the surfing. The shops along the beach front are a mix of restaurants and surfing lesson/rental/repair shops. While in Sayulita we stop for lunch at YoYoMo’s which is known for it’s great pizza. We order a Hawaiian and it is excellent. We find a pair of fins that fits but have to pay much more than in Bucerias (different brand though) and certainly much more than in the US or Canada, or eBay. At 915 pesos the fins are about 265 pesos more. Back to Lo De Marcos by 2:30 pm, we head to the beach to go boogie boarding until about 3:50 when we return to our park to join our friends for happy hour.
Several of the campers have brought dogs with them. Many of the dogs love the water and some are fearless of the surf. One couple, Lorne and Michelle Lyster of Penticton BC, have a Golden Lab that joins them in the water, and is often totally underwater, as the wave crashes over it.
Lorne and his Golden Lab.
Tuesday is housekeeping day – do laundry, make some orange juice and bake a loaf of bread. (Yes, Bev brought the bread maker along with a 20 pound supply of 3 different flours for the 5 months of our journey). In the afternoon we head to the beach to socialize, boogie board (body board), read in the shade of the palm trees. The evening is mild. At 10 pm it is still 22C and the sky is clear with lots of stars in site. So nice to be away from city lights to enjoy star gazing.
Tuesday is also the day that the bread and pastry lady visits the campground. This is the same girl that we met on our first trip to Mexico in 1998 when she newly opened a small outlet in Rincon de Guayabitos, selling muffins.
Campers line up for goodies.
Bread, muffins, little pies, donuts, croissants, peanut brittle,
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