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 [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been reading a blog that I really like, written by a guy who lives and runs a guest house in Costa Rica: Life in Puerto Viejo. I started reading it because I’m interested in that little town, but kept reading because I really like his style of blog writing. It made me realize how [...]
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 [...]
Bandikoro, a partially-local band of some nine members, threw down a fantastic performance yesterday on the beach at Hotel Playa Azul here in Tulum, slamming out song after song of their gorgeous African-Caribbean-Latin music, pouring out their love and good energy to an enthusiastic crowd of dancing, shouting fans. You can see all of the [...]
Here’s a very short video of the waves breaking on the rocks at the beach by the Tulum ruins, taken yesterday. I love the sound and the motion, and thought my blog-reader-friends might too. I got sloshed with that slightly-cool salty water at the end. I climbed the old stone stairway up the face of [...]