The beach was such a welcoming site! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the beach and have missed it so much...unfortunately, I didn't get to spend much time on it because it was still a little cool, around 70 degrees, but we did play some and collect some gorgeous sea shells. What was really different about this beach was that in the mornings the water is about 100 yds back from where it is in the afternoon. That leaves for some really great sea shell finds!
The water was gorgeous and the kids got in but I couldn't take the coldness!
This is the view on the left side of where we were. The first condo you see there is slowly being built but on the other side of it are finished condos that are really nice. I was told that this part of Mexico was "Americanized" so I was really expecting this place to be a lot like the good old "clean" US of A.......well.....it ain't (pardon my french!)! Around the condo areas are nice but the town and surrounding areas are just like you would picture Mexico to be. The beaches were littered too.
But they did have some banana boat rides and jet ski rentals for the tourists....
The area behind the boat is called "Old Town" and is this is were we ate and shopped some.
You could even go horse back riding on the beach....
You could even go horse back riding on the beach....
But what was annoying about this beach was that the Mexicans walked up and down the beach trying to sell you things. One day I laid out for an hour and I had 7 different people try to sell me something. Below you can see they are braiding an American girl's hair on the beach......
What were they selling? Henna tatoo's, purses, sunglasses, jewelry, sun dresses, pottery, etc....you can see below 2 different groups selling things....
Mason loved throwing the frisbee on beach......
Family portrait!
Me and my girl....
The next picture is me with Cathy who lives at Vallecito year round. You can kind of see the right hand side of the beach from where we were staying
Don't know how he done it...that water was freezing!
I will say that neither San Diego or Mexico beaches were as beautiful as the Gulf Shores and Florida Panhandle beaches are. The sand is not as white and gorgeous.
On Friday, Don took the boys out deep sea fishing. They went 50 miles off the coast with no land in site!
Landon got to see Sea lions again! There were several that kept trying to get the fish they would reel up from the bottom!
Landon caught more fish than anyone this trip!
Don normally hires a Mexican to drive out and skin the fish as they are caught, but it was Good Friday which is a major holiday for Catholic Mexicans so his helper didn't show up. So they only caught 57 fish this day because of that. Normally they can bring home double that. The fish caught is used for a community wide fish fry here in Vallecito in August. The next picture is of a whale...Mike said they saw around 40 or so whales while out there!
I was going to try to do it all in one post but too many pictures. So I'll post more later. This last post is at the border going back into the USA. And yes, you must have passports now to get in!
Oh...I almost forgot his hilarious video from Landon out at sea! Be sure to watch...click on the arrow to play....
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