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| Buneaventura - Km marker 94 on Mexico #1 |
Life is often ON the beach here...and there are a lot of them! This beautiful beach is south of El Coyote about 12 km. This evening in late January we quickly decide to drive down and see if the restaurant is open for dinner...usually Famous Hamburgeasas washed down with margaritas or cerverzas. We are in luck! An extra at no extra cost, an incredible sunset - moonrise over the south end of Bahia Conception. This area is still without power lines so, just another candle light dinner with friends.
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| Playa el Coyote |
As for the daily grind this is where it happens....Playa el Coyote. There are 21 rigs lined up this morning, all sizes and shapes: tear drop trailers, vans, 5th wheels, class A motorhomes, cab-over class C motorhomes, truck campers, tent campers, and bicycle campers. This year they are driven here on narrow, challenging Mexico 1, from Bristish Columbia, Washington state, Oregon, California, Idaho, Colorado, New York, and Alberta, to name a few hailing ports.
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| Deb and Steve enjoying fish tacos |
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| Ann sets the table, Court fries the fish he caught....we all enjoy! |
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| Birthdays seem to be big events here at Coyote! |
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| A "Bird's Nest" dark chocolate cake for Raven Gary....with eggs in the middle! |
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| Visiting daughters, Steph and Jessica, are tequila servers for Pedro's birthday extravaganza! |
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| Pedro hunts down the mariatchi men....and they play for us! |
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| Yep...here it comes! |
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| Ice cream smile! |
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| Rapt attention on the conas! |
Even though birthdays are muy importante....there are other events on El Coyote...like, um...like...hey, hear that music playing? (think back to the days of Good Humor Man Truck in our childhood nieghborhoods!)...it's THE ICE CREAM TRUCK! Steve can hear the tiny bell type musica a long long way off. Everyone can. Bodies stop, heads turn, smiles cross faces...we run for our peso purses! 25 pesos ($2.00) buys you a giant cup or cone of hellado. The flavor you choose doesn't really matter...as believe it or not, it all tastes the same. Well, maybe pistacicho is slightly different...or it's just the green green color that makes us think so!
One Tuesday it's off to Punta Chivato beach about an hour north of Mulege. It's a great place for collecting shells, throwing the ball for Skipper, and running wild for Sparky. Sadly, upon return to the Jeep, it turns out it is also a good place to lose car keys...and an return beach search reminds us of just how much sand is on a beach and how small a car key is.
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| Sparky ready to GO! |
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| Throw that ball....far! |
Even though the key loss is a bummer, Nan has her set with her! Yay! It's off to Hotel Posada de los Flores to see if it is open and serving lunch. Yes, and yes...sort of. It's a limited menu today...limited to hamburgers and beer at American prices, but you can't beat the setting.
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| What a back drop!....and the patio drops off too! |
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| Here's to....beaches! |
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| Cute couple! |
Sunday Playa Cocos, 3km to the north, sponsored the annual horseshoe tournament. The 50 peso entry fee went to a jackpot and to a donation to the local animal spay and adoption clinic in Mulege. It's an entire afternoon event, with many rounds, hot dogs, hamburgers, beer and a mini silent auction. Guess who the champion turns out to be?
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| Champion Court |
Valentines Eve finds us at Playa el Burro, 2km north, for a special dinner at Bertha's Beach Club Restaurant. This year flute musica is included along with those special margaritas and of course, ice cream to finish it all off!~ Oh yes, dancing with DJ David too!
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| Yes, it's really that "grande!" |
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| Playa el Burro |
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| Bertha's Restaurant owned / run by Celia |
This is also the site of the Monday night movie...dinner special and a film that has an Oscar nomination for something. This winter we watch Lincoln, Les Miserables, The Sessions, The Impossible, Beast of the Southern Wild, Life of Pi, Sky Fall, to name a few. Rumor has it we will be watching The Oscars too!
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| Valentines sweet music combo! |
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| An ice cream toast all around! |
On to Playa Santispac, 6km further north, where many RV caravans pull in. This beach has the easiest entry and many bigger rigs choose to stop here. This year we see many more travelers on the Baja beaches. This month 5 caravans travel through, some as large as 25 rigs. A new restaurant appears on this beach and it is excellent!
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| Santispac Playa with caravan |
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| Santispac Cove Playa |
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| Restaurant Santispac...shell floor, palm roof, sunscreen "windows"...great food! |
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| Every kitchen needs these.... |
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| Manuel lines 'em up ....mine's the BLUE glass! |
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| Not really.... |
The playa at Posada, 4km north, is mostly for the residents in this tiny community. You can purchase a house here for anywhere from $20,000 - $100,000, have a lease on the land for a number of years, and pay about $4,000 yearly for maintance, water, sewer and power. The power is available during the day until 10 p.m. Some folks pull an RV or trailer into a site and build a palapa structure around it. Presto...instant house. That's really throwing out the anchor on the RV.
This is where my art class teacher lives in the winter. The class meets in the large white palapa.
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| Residents of Posada anchor day sailing boats in front of the beach. |
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| Palapa meeting room - open air! |
A little sample of this year's art projects....although while weaving baskets there are a few jokes that go around...always with the same ending...if this is the old folks home, because we are older folks and at home for the winter...it's a pretty good place! Basket weaving and all..
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| Bastket start...to... |
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....finish! El termino!
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The question often comes up....what on earth do you do on a beach for 10 weeks? You see....we keep busy!
Next it's away from the beach and off on a back road trip! Come along on the next blog post.
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