November 22nd - the nursery and El Divisadero

Congratulations to our niece Joce, who passed her NCLEX-RN to achieve her Bachelor of Nursing/Registered Nurse certification today!  Her intelligence, energy, and caring attitude make her perfectly suited for this career, and a big win for nurse-short Manitoba!

We went to the plants nursery in La Colonia this morning, so Nancy could get some plants for the campsite.

Here's the plants she got.  Even though the bag says premium deer corn, it's dirt.

Proof for Meagan that they're in the ground.  Can tomatoes be far behind?

There's a pueblo on the mountain directly north of us called El Divisadero; you can see lights at night, and the occasional smoke from fires.  As well, there's a backroad route through to Chacala that starts up around there, so I thought I'd go for a look-see.

There's a very good paved road that winds it's way uphill to El Divisadero from Mx 200

This is looking south towards La Peñita, our campsite is at the south end of the long beach.

The pavement ended at the pueblo, the road through the village was the ubiquitous hand laid river stones of the area, west past the village, the road was gravel for a mile or two as it wound through the mango orchards, then returned to stones.  This is west of the village, looking south again, you can just make out the island out in front of Rincon.  The peak in the foreground is the "nostril" of Alligator Point, as seen from the north.

Out of nowhere in the jungle appeared Vista Encanta, all fancy-like.  If you look on Google, there's not much more than the fancy entrance.  Whether this is to entice Internet Investors, or is just for future development, it's hard to say.  

I was fairly sure if I continued, the road would continue west to the little beach cove between our bay and Chacala, but I couldn't see a way north to Chacala.  I backtracked a little way and took a path through a mango orchard that headed north.  It took me over the top to the point that I could see Chacala down in the valley, but dead-ended in a typical farm yard; chickens, goats and a perturbed watch dog.  Oh well, a good day's explore, time to go home and consult a map for next time.

Initial reconnaissance complete, I headed back through El Divisadero.  These flowering shrubs were in the playground, which had swings, a slide and a teeter-totter.  

Back down into the valley towards Mx 200

Agriculture changing from the long traditional palms, now planted in Mango trees.  Next time through, more pictures of the village, less verbage.

The "No-tell Motel" in La Colonia