Most of you have probably heard about our vacation to Playa de Carmen from the standpoint of narrow escapes from the Hurricane Wilma. As the above picture shows, it was not all hand-wringing over the weather. The Sandos Gala Playacar where we stayed was a beautiful, all-inclusive resort with a number of really good restaurants and a beautiful, long stretch of beach. Our room overlooked the ocean, and our front door opened up to the courtyard with the fountain in the picture - beautiful. We explored the rock formations down the beach from our hotel, turning back at the rock with the words "nudist beach" painted on it (for obvious reasons).
The iguana is "Fred", a native who we ran across during one of our walks. (Sheila named him Fred, and I'm not exactly sure why.) We got to dress up a little for dinner, and snorkle and lay out on the beach and take naps - a real vacation.
At one point, the locals taught me how to spear fish with a sharpened bamboo pole, which I demonstrate above. I caught a 27-pound mexican grouper right after that picture was taken. Shelley was so busy helping me club the great beast into submission that we both forgot to take a picture of it before giving it to a local family for their supper.
And just for the sake of meteorological accuracy, I should note that the clouds in the picture on the bottom row are from an outer rain band of Hurricane Wilma. We didn't get any rain until the shuttle ride to the airport, but man did they get rain after we left.
2 comments:
pictures are muy bueno, indeed!
Did you really spear a 27 lb.
grouper? Impressed me!
anonymous (that would be mom)
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