Showing posts with label Puerto Adventuras. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Puerto Adventuras. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

A Wonderful 60th Happy Birthday!

Last week I entered a new decade, my 60's, and I was so happy to celebrate it in Puerto Aventuras, Mexico with my longtime friend Susan, her husband, Scott and my husband, Joe. We visited them on their vacation at our old condos, Villas Del Mar, while we are staying in Cancun for our last few weeks here in Mexico. That was a first visiting friends on vacation while we are on vacation... What a great time we had, lots of good photo ops as you can see by the too many photos. Just sayin'.... I'm a very lucky woman and count each birthday as a special gift!!

Having drinks at the jacuzzi bar with Susan and Scott at the Omni.  

All 4 of us with my iPhone by a nice estrangero.


 Just another day at the beach.


 Susan looking great! Vacation suits her :-)
 Sunset.

 Inside Susan and Scott's Condo.

 Their night time view.

Scott made some yummy fruity drinks with mango, coconut, pineapple and rum. Guacamole Joe making his signature Guac.

 Nice shot, Joe!

Happy to be 60!! 

The back of a can of Sol beer.

For breakfast the next morning we tried this pretty fruit. Don't know the name, I just like buying strange things to eat.  I don't think any of us will seek it out again :-)

 The next day we visited a nearby Cenote, a freshwater sink hole, one of many all over this part of the Yucatan. 
Joe getting his shot, a blog he will post in a few days.

 Click to view full size. This was a beautiful pool of water with lots of fish and caves, I loved it!!

 A young boy from Russia enjoying the fish, too.

 If you stay still in the water, these tiny fish will nibble at your skin, as in exfoliate it, feels odd but I liked it.

 The best swimming water ever!

This photographer was part of the Russian family swimming there, she has perfected a technique of keeping hold of her baby and getting the shot of the others in the water.

Ancient art carved into the stone.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

El Pueblo, Puerto Aventuras

Also known as Poblado Puerto Aventuras.
My friend Christy and I went to the other side of the main highway to the town where the locals live, which is quite different from the part of Puerto Aventuras where the 'touristas' such as us, visit and live. We are on the beach side, with the nice condos and golf courses, but the other side has much more local color and interest, and is a photographers' paradise. I really enjoyed talking to the people, trying their food and admiring their choice of wild colors.

 I dragged my sorry you know what out of our condo today to go 'play' here. A bad sore throat has kept me under for a few days. Good thing Christy is here to keep me going! We had a good time, how could you not with all this color?


 No matter what, everyone is always well dressed with clean clothes.




 What are these tiny things? Baby socks?



Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Sunrise On A Good Rainy Day

What a spectacular sunrise we had today in Puerto Aventuras, the colors were flying! I dashed out with my Canon camera and was rewarded with a pretty show.

 The pool area in Villas Del Mar

 Our beach.

 My favorite Palapa to photograph.

 A couple enjoying their morning coffee, best seat on the beach and no one else but us were there.

 A first for me, an exercise class on the beach! What a pretty place for it, I watched Pelicans diving for their breakfast while I'm trying to keep up. This was a serious class, I couldn't keep up, and if I can still walk tomorrow I'll go back on Friday. 3 times a week at 8am. Today's class was cut short by rain, we were in it for an hour while it was coming down lightly, a first for me as well.

 Grabbed this with my iPhone, the best place ever to do lunges and crunches while a gentle rain comes down to keep you cool.

A walk in the rain to the outdoor market. Still warm out...

 An Agouti, they run around and remind me of rabbits. Cute!

Nearing the end of the day.

Sunset.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Birders Were Here...

One last blog of Ian here in Puerto Aventuras, with Luke and Jess... They went shopping for trinkets for people back home, watched the dolphins swim with the tourists, ate pizza, went snorkeling, ate guacamole, laughed a lot and now they are back in the States.  Ian's second semester junior year classes at UMass started today, Cornell's spring semester started for Luke yesterday and Jess's job is still going strong (they keep upping the date for closing her facility). 

Ian has posted some of his gorgeous bird photos from Mexico on his flickr site here.
Also a blog of his trip is here.

Luke composed a very funny list of their 18 day adventure in Mexico...

"I am currently sitting in the Cancun airport, having fallen madly in love with yet another Latin American country. I'm not so sure about returning to the cold and snow of Ithaca, New York. Here are some stats from the three-week road trip:
Total kilometers driven: 4,893 (2,935.2 miles)

Total Species of Birds: 467
Total Money Spent: <$1000
Total number of topes we went over: >40,000,000,000 
Total number of topes we bottomed out on: remarkably few (nicely done Jess)... Jess did all the driving.
Number of times our engine failed while on a small boat: 1
Number of times the car brakes failed on a steep winding mountain road: 1
Number of times it actually rained: 1
Number of military checkpoints we went through: ~75
Number of military checkpoints where they actually searched us: 2
Number of migraines: 0 (!!!)
Number of instances of food poisoning: 1 (x4 people)
Number of dead baby dolls in the middle of a random dirt road: 1
Number of penises I accidentally saw on a nude beach: ~30
Number of times "Thrift Shop" was played in the car: ~75
Number of times "I Knew You Were Trouble" was played in the car: ~100
Number of times I changed my mind about whether Rosita's or Orange-breasted Bunting is better: ~70
Number of times I shat in the woods: 0
Number of times I shat in a bathroom that was far worse than the woods could ever be: several
Number of times a herd of cows completely blocked the road: 1
Number of times I called a bird a "little slut" for not cooperating for photos: ~550
It has been fun. In the wise words of Bruce Springsteen: we'll be see in' ya!"

Amigos going snorkeling, they find and swim with a sea turtle!!

Jess.


 A waterproof camera shot.

Ian. 
One of my last shots with my new supposedly waterproof Olympus Tough TG-320 before it stopped working. No fix in sight, Olympus said to send it in, which is not possible from here in Mexico. I was really enjoying playing with it too :-(

Going out before we get pizza, nice bar at the Omni Hotel on the water. Closed on Saturday night, but we hang out anyway...


 Luke.

 Enjoying shopping for gifts...

Finding just the right scarf.