Beach at San Clemente, Ecuador

 Just another day at the beach, each day bringing wonderful sights and sounds.

Royal Tern

Royal Tern

Western Willet

Sorting his catch from the nets.

Royal Terns and Laughing Gulls

The Village of San Clemente, Ecuador

 Center of the village of San Clemente, basically a fishing village on the Pacific Ocean. Joe and I bought sunscreen from this farmacia, an essential item used by locals and estrangeros alike.

Store of everything. Hardware included.

The teen hangout, especially for video games but we saw them playing cards as well.

Waiting for our dinner.

Vegetarian fare in Ecuador: menestra y arroz, ensalada and maduro. In this case lentils and rice, salad and grilled plantains. $5 for 2 people (2 servings of menestra).

Carnival came to town, hence the caterpillar.

Surfing is big in Ecuador.

Love the chocolate intenso bars.

Another dog just resting.

 Shopping with our friends Wayne and Jeff.

Jan and Wayne getting supplies for the home they bought here.

Jeff and his wife Gayle, with supplies: pineapple and paint.

 Stopping off for some ice cream.

The 7 of us went into town to see the parade at night. Photo by Joe.

Manuel took a liking to Joe and kept trying to talk to him in Spanish, Joe's new best friend :-)

More ice cream...

Jessica and her dad, Jeff.

Joe and I left at 10pm and the parade hadn't started yet. People were all dressed up cruising the town having a great time. Of course, it never got cold in the town of eternal perfect weather!

Palmazul in San Clemente, Ecuador

Joe and I have been at the lovely Hotel Palmazul in San Clemente for a week now and just loving it!! What a perfect place to be, always the right temperature, mild breezes, crashing wave sounds with pelicans and frigate birds cruising by, luxurious hotel, great food and we've met some very nice new friends. Yes, we have found our place! Walking around barefoot in shorts and tank top all day long is easy to get used to.

I've been too busy photographing the fishermen hauling in their catch every morning, what a great sight that is, long walks at low tide on a wide beach that goes on forever, and reading "The Girl with the Dragon Tatooo" to be blogging, but it's not for a lack of photos. It really is a photographers' paradise here!

 Wayne and Jeff.

A sand dollar burying itself.

Beach property for sale, 2 houses on the sand for $175K.  Would love to buy it :-)

Low tide.

Palmazul at night.

Sunset from our room.

 Palmazul from the beach. Joe and 3 other men are climbing the mountain you see in the background as I type, should be a good blog on that from his link.

 Those for sale houses... wanna go in with us?

Joe loving the warm weather and friendly people, when we see them.

 Palmazul.

Where we have breakfast every morning.

Love the children!