Welcoming my sister

Jan arrived on the plane Friday afternoon to spend a week with us here. She was pretty happy to get away from Victoria's cold and windy weather, just as we were.  Like me, she's a beach girl so the first thing we did was head down to the beach and stick our feet in the water.  Then we took a walk along the shore and scoped out restaurants for dinner. The walkway is just behind where the fishermen come in with their catch in the morning.

We saw this guy unloading some rather large fish onto a tarp. Not sure if they were for sale to passers-by or not.  We are planning to learn more about the fish here and how to cook them. It seems that it's a very fishy town.































There are lots of restaurants featuring fish and shrimp and finally chose one where we could dine at a table on the sand.  Here are Harry and Jan looking happy as they peruse the menu.

At the far end of the Municipal beach walk is a little bridge across a canal and then a walkway around a cliff that leads to Playa Madera, a nice beach for swimming.

We scouted it out yesterday and went back this morning for a beach day, which we spent under a palapa where we sat at a table for lunch and drinks while taking dips in the balmy water. It's a lot warmer than the beaches in Mazatlan, which kind of makes up for the fact that it's pretty hot and muggy here. Playa Madera is lovely with a shallow hard bottom and gentle waves. Perfect for swimming. 

Behind Playa Madera there are houses, hotels and bungalows built up the hill. If we come down here again we're thinking it would be nice to find accommodation in one of these places with a balcony to catch the breeze and steps down to the beach.  Oh yeah!