A Most Exciting Day

Saturday dawned bright and quiet - no wind!  The water was beautifully smooth! Small groups formed in front of several rigs with people visiting and enjoying the sun and light breeze.  Jeannine decided to go swimming off the beach with her noodle.  Unfortunately she got into some stingrays and one hit her on her ankle causing a deep puncture that went into her vein.  It scared her pretty bad because there was a lot of blood and it hurt.  Fortunately this group has three nurses, one brain surgeon, two pharmacists and an employee of the campground was an EMT.  She was well cared for and is recovering nicely.

Speaking of recovering, our grandson is well.  He did not need to go back into the hospital.

After the excitement of the stingray, most of us took advantage of the weekly pig roast BBQ the beach bar has on Saturdays.  They roasted a whole pig and served chicken wings, baked chicken, beef on a stick and pork chops and rice.  The sides were a vegetable medley, cole slaw, basmati rice and cabbage, roasted garlic and bread, baked potatoes, baked beans and cacti. Desert was almond balls and apple strudel. It was a huge spread, all you can eat and it only cost $200 pesos per person ($14.00).  On top of that we had 2 for 1 drinks from 10 am - noon.  They make really good Bloody Mary’s and Margaritas! We were stuffed and had to take a nap!

To work off all that food, seven of us went for a hike in the hills on the other side of the road.  There was no path so we all sort of made our own way through the canyon.  We had heard there was a dam at the end of the canyon.  Marcia and I gave up trying to worm our way through scrub, bushes and loose rock but the others made it to the end.  Not much to see but it was good exercise and I loved all the flowers and smells along the way. We all puzzled over the large amount of sea shells we saw all over the rocky slope which was at least 1/2 mile from the shore and some were even further back than that.  There were too many for them to be dropped by birds.  The water had to have been that high a some point in time.

We closed the day with a huge bonfire on the beach burning the plentiful supply of driftwood. What a great way to end the day!