Sunrise and moonset on Sunday December 11, 2022
It was a mellow day. As usual, we spent the morning doing chores. While Christi and Keith were washing Kosmos, a marina employee came by in a small boat and asked if that was our dinghy. When they looked over, they saw our dinghy was floating away! Eric hopped into his boat and they retrieved the dinghy. We are so grateful to him. Had he not seen it and alerted us, the dinghy would have likely smashed up on the rocks.
Continue readingThe malecon stretches on for miles. When we felt like we’d walked far enough, we turned inland and headed towards the historic church. Just a block in from the malecon, there was a pedestrian walkway that was packed with vendors selling assorted goods.
Here is the other end of the walkway. You can see that the vendor stalls end just before the entrance to Sears.
Sunrise on Friday, October 28, looking at the channel from the edge of the docks
On Friday morning, Eric flushed the grey water tank. Then he filled up the tank and added Seazyme, an enzyme that dissolves some of the bio-solids that tend to build up in tanks. He turned off the pump for a day so Seazyme had time to do its thing before being pumped out.
It has taken us a while to figure out how to keep the smell from our grey-water tank under control. While the things that go into grey-water tanks aren’t as inherently gross and smelly as what goes into blackwater tanks, things such as hair and toothpaste tend to get stuck in the tanks, build up and smell bad. It actually creates a grey sludge. In the past, we’ve mentioned a few things that help, such as doing laundry at sea and turning off the pump so that warm, soapy water sloshes around and helps clear out some of the icky stuff that builds up in the bottom of the tank. Seazyme is another trick that we’ve learned. (Side note: in 2021, we did a major overhaul of both the blackwater and grey-water tanks, which has also helped with the smell.)
Earlier in the week, we’d told Claire and Phil that we were planning to go to two Dia de Los Muertos parties in Loreto on Friday. We’d mentioned that we were going to rent a car to get to Loreto. Claire and Phil told us that that they wanted to go to the parties, and they had a vehicle and could drive us. How perfect! Claire also offered to take Christi grocery shopping in Loreto on Friday before the parties.
Grocery shopping was uneventful. We’re now pretty well stocked up for a while. Keith and Eric did chores. We’re not sure if we’ve ever mentioned this before, but the drive between Puerto Escondido and Loreto is stunning. The road is hilly and offers spectacular views. This is the ex-pat community just south of Loreto
There wasn’t much time between returning from the stores in Loreto before heading back to Loreto for the parties. Our first stop was Dan, Liz and Drake’s house, where Liz did face painting on all the willing participants.
Initially, Keith was going to wear this as his costume:
Continue readingOn Friday (October 7), we had lunch at Los Compadres. Just like last time, Eric ordered their signature lamb tacos. It was tender, shredded meat cooked in spices and served in tortillas. Christi and Keith ordered carne asada tacos, which was tender, shredded steak cooked with just salt and served in tortillas. The tacos were served with platters of accoutrements. Both the tacos and platters looked much the same as we had at La Huastica.
We’d found out that the museum was in a beautiful building that looked like an old plantation, which was on the street above the street that the grocery store was on.
On Tuesday, October 4, it was only 73 degrees at 0800. We decided to take advantage of the cool weather to walk along the sea wall to the edge of the harbor. Looking at the old photos that we’ve seen around town, the sea wall looks much the same now as it did over 100 years ago, when it was built by the mining company.
The entrance to the sea wall is just beyond the end of the Malecon, past the dilapidated tower (the tower certainly looks a lot different than it did 100 years ago).
We’ve seen old pieces of equipment from the mining era on display all over town. There were a couple pieces at the entrance.
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