Teacapan- home and office

If you look carefully you can see our campervan looking quite forlorn on the street behind the villa we rented about 7km from Teacapan. It was an easy choice to make as the camping rate was $17/night vs the villa for $40/night including daily maid service! Besides, it was windy on the beach in the evening so it was nice to have some extra room to cook dinner and hang out together. The upper patio was a perfect place to hang our hammock.

Teacapan is a tiny fishing village at the end of an estuary.  We were hoping to see some crocodiles while we were here but so far have not had a sighting. We did find a dead giant  sea turtle though as well as many other interesting additions to our collection- pelican and vulture skulls, sandollars, dolphin vertebrae, whale bone, manta ray corpses and sandcrabs. We learned from our neighbors that a nest of sea turtles is about to hatch in the next 4-10 days. A group of do gooder campers are keeping a vigil over the nest to help fend off predators and help the little turtles get out to sea when they hatch.

 We  spent most of our time exploring the miles and miles of empty beach and palm groves on either side of this oasis called Villas Onac. The ocean here is a beautiful but  wild thing and because of that  we didn't feel comfortable having the boys swim in it . The rip tides are dangerous and we didn't see anyone else swimming so we stayed out too. Besides, the air cooled with the wind in the early afternoon so that would have made swimming uncomfortable.

I set up my office on the patio overlooking the pool and the ocean hoping to get some City Palate work done. Unfortunately the "free wifi" is the poorest we have experienced in all of Mexico so we'll pack up in the next few days and hope for something better further south.