January 2nd, 3rd, 4th, & 5th - The view from above

On Monday the 4th, we headed over to the flying site behind the beach at La Colonia, north of the park.  I put the little video camera on the Radian, put it up high on a clear blue day, and took a couple of videos of the area.

One of my landing attempts was balked on final by el vaquero riding out to the beach on his fine horse  I went around, so as not to spook the horse.  The videos are basic, unedited and maybe a little vertigo-inducing, but they give a pretty good idea of the local area.  You can see south along the beach to La Penita RV Park (where the rock outcrop interrupts the beach), to La Peñita, and to Rincon. I think it's not bad for a quick and dirty effort.  And where can you view said videos, you may ask?  Well, we've been struggling with bandwidth all day today, in an effort to put them up on Youtube (literally all day so far has yielded 24% progress, for one video).  OK, it's up, have a look.  Radian view of La Colonia beach

After flying, we celebrated by heading into La Peñita, to Jaime y Hinde's restaurant for lunch.  For me, three tacos, two fish, one shrimp, @ 12 pesos apiece, and a bottle of Tecate cerveza, 20 pesos, for a grand sum of 56 pesos ($4.48 CDN) for a great lunch!

I also just finished an experimental bottle of amber rum today, Los Reyes.  Entirely acceptable, and 65 pesos ($5.20 CDN), on sale!  I am really growing to like Mexico.

Kirk never has had stellar vision, and his right eye's cataract is not improving matters.  When we're sitting out on the deck hers tied on his lead, back where he is no threat to the sunning amigos, which he would dearly love to chomp.  Nancy put some green beans out for the iguana on his sunning wall, early in the morning, before the wall was hot enough to attract him.  Kirk came out, saw something on the wall, made a lightening charge, and dealt the helpless green beans a death blow, scattering beans in all directions.  His embarrassment was extreme, I had to wait until he left to laugh.

Today, after siesta, we went adventuring up the dump road, and through the back road from La Peñita to El Monteon.  The rough road made it a walking pace adventure, it was also narrow, and overgrown with vegetation.  We got to see the dump, covered in vultures and egrets, waded through places where the stream was flowing along the road (the loose, rounded rocks under the water giving the CRV's AWD a workout, as all four wheels slowly worked their way through and over the rotating, fist-sized rock/steam bottom), and checked out the agave fields, mango orchards, and cattle grazing, and generally had a good time meandering along through the alternating semi-fields and jungle.