Mexico, Zuihuatanejo

Zuihuatanejo is a gem!  A large town situated on a bay on the west coast of Mexico.  Fishing boats in the harbour and hotels and guest houses crawling up the hillsides.  I (Miriam) have left Simon at home in the cold and come to Mexico with a good friend.  It is the first time in Zuihua for both of us.  I was last in Mexico in 1981/82.  

We arrived on the long weekend.  Mexico celebrates their revolution on Feb 5th, but since that is Tuesday this year, everybody took Monday off.  Zuihua was swarming with Mexican tourists and there were large crowds in the zocalo for the evening entertainment.  The larger all-inclusive resorts are mostly in the sister city of Ixtapa.  That is where you find the majority of gringos and gringas.
After getting ourselves oriented to the town, we headed off to the next beach, Playa la Ropa.  One theory is that it was named after a Spanish galleon that sank off shore, leaving the beach covered with silk fabric.  We both managed to get quite badly sunburned walking to the beach at 9:30am.  Go figure!

The sunsets on the bay are beautiful, the warm colours of the buildings glow in rich, golden hues.  The flower below (I don't know what it is called) blooms after the sun goes down.  One evening we were fortunate enough to see one of the spidery blossoms 'pop'.  

On our last day we took a water taxi to Playa las Gatos, a small beach on the other side of the bay.  There is a line of coral just off shore and we donned face masks for a bit of snorkelling.  There were several varieties of fish of varying sizes, mostly bright blue and yellow-striped, and I caught sight of a sea urchin's spines poking out of a niche in the coral.