I’ve been wanting to blog and post photos of my new town, Playa del Carmen, but have just been so busy with work that I haven’t had much chance. I want to show what the town is like, including its crazy glitzy Quinta Avenida (5th Avenue), massive, fairy-tale-luxury gringo hotels, and crowded city beaches. I’ll [...]
Music at Playa Azul
From Mérida, we took the short drive up to Progreso and then east through the string of sleepy little fishing towns along the Yucatán’s northernmost coast. Even though these Gulf of Mexico beaches can’t quite compare with the beauty of the Yucatán’s Caribbean beaches, they’re still quite pretty, and the area is much less developed. [...]
The beach at Sian Ka’an Yesterday I took a long bike ride out to the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve, just south of Tulum, and spent some time on the beach. Sian Ka’an has been a Mexican national park since 1986 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987, and has an area of 5,280 square [...]
Yesterday I rode my bike out the beach road in the heat of the day. My system during the summer is to either go early in the morning, or late in the afternoon, so that either way I only have one long ride in the 95 degree F heat. The beach road – apparently its [...]
Taken just off the Boca Paila Road, near Hotel Zamas, from out on the rocks, at sunset. Look at those ****ing colors! And another at the same time and place. I took a whole bunch of these and could hardly decide which was best.
I went to the beach today and walked down to my special, beautiful place, where there are hardly any people, just rocks and waves and plants – and iguanas! Some would disappear into holes in the rocks; some were chasing each other; and one magnificent one was keeping watch over the ocean from his perch [...]