Mexico

We are just back from a week in Mexico, so I thought I would share a few interesting images with you.

The area right next to the resort we stayed at is a little patch of jungle. There is some building going on there, but like many Mexican building projects, they have not made much progress over the years. It's supposed to be a museum, we were told, but right now it's just a happy place for iguanas to live. Here's a nice specimen who wandered through the chain link fence to bask in the sun and pose for pictures.

This colorful character is a Mayan (I think). He visited the welcome party to invite everyone to go to a special dinner at one of the resort restaurants that included a show about Mexican history.

The sunset is usually quite magnificent over the lagoon. So it became an almost daily challenge to try to capture it. Here are a few versions. Often "sunset" was accompanied by margarita's at the lagoon-side bar, "Poncho and Willy's." (By the way, Poncho and Willy are two of the salt water crocodiles that visit the restaurant there nightly.)

One day we rented a car and traveled south along the Mayan Riviera. We spent the day at a sister resort close to Playa del Carmen and on the way back we stopped at a quieter fishing village that has so far escaped overdevelopment. The town is Porto Morelos and a popular photo spot is this leaning lighthouse that was tilted by a hurricane in the 1980's.

This was also taken at Porto Morelos. The white speck on the horizon is a cruise ship traveling north from Cozumel. The ocean along the Mayan Riviera is very calm because there is a reef that acts as a natural breakwater.