{"id":4190,"date":"2015-11-07T13:09:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T19:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2016-09-08T11:29:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T08:29:13","slug":"scenes-from-isla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/scenes-from-isla\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenes From Isla"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is the annual celebration for the Ejido community and there has been loud partying going on since around 6:00 this morning! I headed out around 10:00 for a walk around the main part of Isla, to see what was going on today and what has changed in the last year.<\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>

This was a vacant lot at the end of my street last winter. Big house going up now!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Low<\/a>

Low tide on an almost deserted beach. Looking towards Isla de Chivas and the Faro.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Lety's<\/a>

Lety’s and Victor’s restaurants. Haven’t been to Victor’s yet.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"More<\/a>

More restaurants I haven’t been to. Osuna is new. I really should make it a point to try each one!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The vendors were listening to music since there really weren’t many customers.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"More<\/a>

More restaurants.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The oyster seller was there last year.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"I<\/a>

I enjoyed watching the large ships in harbour.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"And<\/a>

And looking at Icebox Hill. Exploring it should be on my to-do list for the winter!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"I<\/a>

I also had fun watching the crabs. I had no idea they can jump\b! This guy was like Spiderman, jumping and crawling up stuff!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"I<\/a>

I paused to get a $10 Solero bar, which is a high end fruit juice popsicle. This one was lime. Very refreshing!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Gobs<\/a>

Gobs of (Mexican) tourists) getting on a tour tractor.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"There<\/a>

There is going to be a parade, so there were a lot of floats.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"A<\/a>

A big chunk of Calle Principal was blocked off near the school for a party. Lots of tables and chairs under open tents and musicians were setting up.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Where<\/a>

Where did you recently see something similar?<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The new paint job on the tortiller\u00eda looks great!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"New<\/a>

New restaurant that I’ll need to try. They sell tortas, which I have never had.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"There's<\/a>

There’s a carnival inside the baseball stadium.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Looks<\/a>

Looks like fun for the kids!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"I<\/a>

I used to love going to these things when I was a kid.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Patty's<\/a>

Patty’s defunct restaurant is under renovations. I wonder if she’s gone for good or just redecorating. I miss her $40 burger and *real* fries!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"These<\/a>

These pretty flowers smelled divine!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The mechanic has been very busy. I’ll stop in next week and see if he can fit me in to look at my clutch.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The butcher shop made a nice sign in honour of the festivities.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Very<\/a>

Very different setup inside than last year. Looks like they’re expanding into a full service abbarotes and not just doing meat.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"No<\/a>

No sign of chicken at 11:45 means no chicken. \ud83d\ude41<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Amazing<\/a>

Amazing work done on this house since I was last here, but I don’t like the glass railing.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"One<\/a>

One thing that surprised me about buildings here is that their main electrical breaker panel is outside!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"My<\/a>

My neighbour’s horses headed to work.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Another<\/a>

Another neighbour is using a child’s car seat to hold up the clothes line on her roof!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"This<\/a>

This same neighbour has opened up a restaurant of sorts.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is the annual celebration for the Ejido community and there has been loud partying going on since around 6:00 this morning! I headed out around 10:00 for a walk around the main part of Isla, to see what was going on today and what has changed in the last year.<\/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":[731,796],"class_list":["post-4190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mazatlan","category-mexico","category-north-america","category-sinaloa","category-travel","tag-beaches","tag-city-tours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190","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=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}