Driven To Wander
Adventurer
West Coast Mexican Beaches with Hippies and Hammocks - Part II
Okan enjoyed the evening poker games, after Indigo and I went off to bed. Our new friends had an alternative to money for playing poker, they instead proffered up 100 pushups or sit-ups to join a game, or stay in a hand. This made for an interesting combination of heavily drinking and extraordinarily fit poker players! Hammock time (recovery time) was a part of every day for the adults, and the kids enjoyed hammock time along with rock climbing, and rolling down sand hills sprinkled here and there.
With all the good times, I also had my biggest scare of my life here. Indigo was playing on the beach, not too close to the waves, with the bigger kids while I was taking photos nearby. He got side-swiped by a wave that came over a sand dune and was flowing sideways across the beach. He fell and rolled towards the water, but just in time for another wave to pull him with it when it was returning to the sea. I was already walking towards him when the first wave caught him. But the second wave took us both by surprise and I was barely able to grab his hand just in time for a huge third wave that crashed around his small body. While clutching his little hand and trying to maintain footing, all I could see of him was his arm, and his face peering through a 4-foot wall of tumbling white water. His expression screamed silently but loudly, "mommy, please don't let go!" The wave finally subsided and I pulled him up the beach. How the camera survived without getting drenched as well, I will never know. Indigo thankfully has a greater respect for the waves these days, and I think I will hover a bit closer. And if you see his swimming vest on him in future photos while he's just playing in the sand away from the water... now you know why.
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Here is a short movie taken by our friend Bérénice of our snorkelling and swimming fun.
We hated to leave really, but we headed further south when our neighbours left as we wanted to leave on a good note. Not to mentioned the beach would have seemed so lonely without 6 kids running about. We also would have loved to keep traveling with them, but they had many repairs to tackle, and we felt the pull to keep moving. This was the still one of the best weeks of our entire trip thus far.
We thought we might do some wild camping along the beach, and stopped at this secluded restaurant along the way. Only thing there was the restaurant, the beach, and surfers. Not a lot of shade, and hot hot hot, and more hot. We stayed for lunch and moved further down the coast.
We opted to stay at Cocoleoco, an established campground where we could get laundry done and refill water tanks.
Sometimes the banalities of living life on the road, dictate your next moves. We rolled in thinking 1 night, ended up staying 3 because the surroundings were so nice and laid back, good bathrooms helped us make a positive assessment as well.
We enjoyed the beautiful blue colours at the beach, hung out at the campground, and I did a little bit of stretching (not even going to pretend I was doing yoga, although it might have initially started out that way). Indigo played with the owner's kids all day. Not even sure what pushed us forward to leave as we were feeling quite complacent. It may have been a dwindling food supply as there was no market in walking distance, or lack of hardware store for repairs. Hard to say, but we rolled out feeling content and happy with our experiences along the coast, and one of our last sunsets over the ocean for a while.
Okan enjoyed the evening poker games, after Indigo and I went off to bed. Our new friends had an alternative to money for playing poker, they instead proffered up 100 pushups or sit-ups to join a game, or stay in a hand. This made for an interesting combination of heavily drinking and extraordinarily fit poker players! Hammock time (recovery time) was a part of every day for the adults, and the kids enjoyed hammock time along with rock climbing, and rolling down sand hills sprinkled here and there.
With all the good times, I also had my biggest scare of my life here. Indigo was playing on the beach, not too close to the waves, with the bigger kids while I was taking photos nearby. He got side-swiped by a wave that came over a sand dune and was flowing sideways across the beach. He fell and rolled towards the water, but just in time for another wave to pull him with it when it was returning to the sea. I was already walking towards him when the first wave caught him. But the second wave took us both by surprise and I was barely able to grab his hand just in time for a huge third wave that crashed around his small body. While clutching his little hand and trying to maintain footing, all I could see of him was his arm, and his face peering through a 4-foot wall of tumbling white water. His expression screamed silently but loudly, "mommy, please don't let go!" The wave finally subsided and I pulled him up the beach. How the camera survived without getting drenched as well, I will never know. Indigo thankfully has a greater respect for the waves these days, and I think I will hover a bit closer. And if you see his swimming vest on him in future photos while he's just playing in the sand away from the water... now you know why.
[video=vimeo;255128623]https://vimeo.com/255128623[/video]
[video]https://player.vimeo.com/video/255128623[/video]
Here is a short movie taken by our friend Bérénice of our snorkelling and swimming fun.
We hated to leave really, but we headed further south when our neighbours left as we wanted to leave on a good note. Not to mentioned the beach would have seemed so lonely without 6 kids running about. We also would have loved to keep traveling with them, but they had many repairs to tackle, and we felt the pull to keep moving. This was the still one of the best weeks of our entire trip thus far.
We thought we might do some wild camping along the beach, and stopped at this secluded restaurant along the way. Only thing there was the restaurant, the beach, and surfers. Not a lot of shade, and hot hot hot, and more hot. We stayed for lunch and moved further down the coast.
We opted to stay at Cocoleoco, an established campground where we could get laundry done and refill water tanks.
Sometimes the banalities of living life on the road, dictate your next moves. We rolled in thinking 1 night, ended up staying 3 because the surroundings were so nice and laid back, good bathrooms helped us make a positive assessment as well.
We enjoyed the beautiful blue colours at the beach, hung out at the campground, and I did a little bit of stretching (not even going to pretend I was doing yoga, although it might have initially started out that way). Indigo played with the owner's kids all day. Not even sure what pushed us forward to leave as we were feeling quite complacent. It may have been a dwindling food supply as there was no market in walking distance, or lack of hardware store for repairs. Hard to say, but we rolled out feeling content and happy with our experiences along the coast, and one of our last sunsets over the ocean for a while.