{"id":2410,"date":"2015-04-02T16:36:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T22:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=2410"},"modified":"2016-09-07T19:50:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:50:39","slug":"semana-santa-thursday-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/semana-santa-thursday-on-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Semana Santa: Thursday On the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sound of joyful music and the promise of a raspado lured me out of the casita this afternoon. Isla is getting much busier and, as expected, driving is now a nightmare here. I’m thinking I should up up a sign offering parking for one car for 50 pesos per day! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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My street is a detour, with police making sure people turn and ATVers slow down.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Parking only on this stretch, I guess.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This person has a big empty lot and is putting it to good use!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Better deal for parking if you don’t mind walking a bit.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The RV park is shut tight.<\/p><\/div>\n

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There’s a rope blocking access this way since everyone ignores the sign.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Quiet(ish) at this end, if you don’t count the trombone music.<\/p><\/div>\n

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But still busier than yesterday.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Contessa’s site is looking empty.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The entire area in front of the RV park is off limits.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Quite a high cliff (higher than I can step up). Moments after I took this, the ground gave way and I fell pretty hard and hurt my hip. Thankfully, there were only a few thousand witnesses.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Frolicking at low tide.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I think this is the Navy (Marinos).<\/p><\/div>\n

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Spiced mangoes on a stick and stuffed cucumbers. I might go for a mango tomorrow!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Doing something wonderful with pineapples.<\/p><\/div>\n

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What a lovely day!<\/p><\/div>\n

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I did not see a single Gringo.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Natural swimming pool.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fancier swimming pool.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Traffic cones blocking a right hand turn from my street.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Moron blocking my street. I would not be able to get out of the yard either forwards or backwards.<\/p><\/div>\n

There were again a lot of raspado vendors and I picked one who had a hand washing station set up. He didn’t have his flavours listed, so I asked if he had prune, which he did. I didn’t take a picture because it frankly looked disgusting, but, of course, tasted divine. I liked it even more than the pineapple! The juice seemed to coat the ice better and the prunes had softened to melt in your mouth consistency. I had to watch out for pits, though!<\/p>\n

I walked the whole length of the section of beach towards the panga and back savouring my treat, then had to walk quite a distance past the RV park until I found a place where I could get back up the sand hill, finding a stick firmly planted in the ground that I could use for a hand hold.<\/p>\n

The atmosphere on the beach is wonderful. It’s not rowdy in the least. Everyone is having a good time, there’s barely any trash, the music is pleasant, and the police is friendly more than intimidating. I will definitely go check it out again tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sound of joyful music and the promise of a raspado lured me out of the casita this afternoon. Isla is getting much busier and, as expected, driving is now a nightmare here. I’m thinking I should up up a sign offering parking for one car for 50 pesos per day! \ud83d\ude00 There were again […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[815,14,635,814,3],"tags":[731,794],"class_list":["post-2410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mazatlan","category-mexico","category-north-america","category-sinaloa","category-travel","tag-beaches","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}