The Megan-Mom team did not make it further than the semi-finals but ended up winning nice caps with the Sayulita logo and Bocci on the back, for being our division winners. Not bad for beginners, and we had fun!
Now it is time to do some exploring. We want to see a bit more of Mexico, and this is a good place to do some day-trips from. We've heard many suggestions so we'll follow up on some - Playa de Muertes to walk to, thursday market in La Penita, and San Sebastian which is an old colonial town just east of Puerto Vallarta.
Around Sayulita.
We are exploring the area around "our" town. We walked south along the beach and then on a dirt road around the point to Playa de Muertes, which is a beach next to a large, old cemetery in the jungle. The cemeteries here are haphazardly placed gravesites, some with elaborate statues and crosses, lots with flowers and flower arrangements, and some balloons and pinatas involved. It looks actually like a happy place instead of the somber places we know at home. Playa de Muertes was a bit busy so we decided to walk through the jungle following the one-lane dirt road up and over the point to another beach we had heard about. This one was more quiet (there were people there, however, maybe 10) and wonderful shells to sort through. Some rich and famous are having mansions built up on the hillside overlooking the beach. we spent some time there but the ocean was a bit rough for swimming. So we wondered back through the lizard-infested jungle, very hot now, to the first beach but that was even busier now so we walked back slowly to our campsite. Saw a few people from the camping who had just come in from a fishing trip. They had caught 6 dorado (dolphin fish) and someone was cleaning the fish for them. Of course the pelicans were right there to pick up the scraps! Dorado is a great-tasting fish, also known as mahi-mahi, it has a great blunt head and is related to tuna. It is greenish/yellow in colour but when in the water you can see why they call it dorado (gold) as it looks very yellow.A little more swimming in the ocean and then we called it a day.
Thursday we ventured into La Penita, a little village with a large market on thursdays. It was very very busy! Busloads of gringos and also lots of Mexicans come to this market to buy anything and everything. I found a great beanbakingpot for $5, Ryan a chess-set carved from stone and Earl some steakknives, and we got some glasses to drink from for everyone (we are getting a little tired from the tin cups and their "flavour"). Excellent lunch, very cheap but we had to wait a long time for it, nothing is rushed here in Mexico, you really have to have patience and relax and take your time with everything. On the way there and back we stopped in several other little places along the coast, all popular with tourists and snowbirds from Canada and the U.S.A. Once back we baked refried beans with cheese in our new beanpot and with fresh baked nachos and guacamole we had a nice snack for dinner. It is very quiet in town, no noise, no loud partiers. Yesterday evening we had a wedding on the beach so the mariachi band was a bit loud but fun music. Now the streets are practically deserted. All we hear at night is the waves crashing onto the beach and changing the beach so that tomorrow we'll have a new beach to explore.
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