Sunday - Huatulco

Hi all. It's been a very lazy week here. Found a library downstairs so both David and I have been reading proper books with paper pages intead of our e-readers. Betty arrived on the bus Friday morning to join us. It rained pretty much solidly from Friday afternoon through to this morning. Think torrential rain: floods: villages being evacuated higher up in the Sierra Madre. I have never seen the like of it - and the noise. However today has been gorgeous and we remembered why we had driven so far to come to the Pacific. There are 7 beaches and bays which make up Las Bahias de Huatulco. We are on Playa Chahue so, this afternoon, we visited 3 more: Playa de Maguey, Entraga y Santa Cruz. All of them were as I had envisaged the Pacific beaches to be: palapas (thatched shelters) on jungle fringed, white sanded bays with turquoise sea and lots of exotic birds: pelicans, frigate birds, the ever present zopilotes (black vultures). What I hadn't reckoned on was the number of people on them! People helping you park your car, choose your restaurant, hire a lounger and then the tourists! Mexican mainly cos the schools have just got out. We spent a maximum of 10 minutes on each and then hurried back to Chahue: no palapas, no touts, just white sand, surf, little interesting shells and 2 minutes walk from the condo. Think I'm too used to our beautiful beaches in Ireland - if there are 3 people on them it's 2 too many!