I´m staying in a village called Buena Vista. Dispate of the ambitious name the view is not especially great, it´s a super small place 5 kilometres from the sea. Naturally there is no internet connection, so I took a bus and now I´m here at Zihuatanejo. (Going back up soon.)
Yesterday we stayed at the beach until 5AM so my head is extremely sore now - tequila tastes fantastic but the next morning you poor thing find yourself weak and faint.
In general I have a feeling I am in a Zoo. Have seen baby alligators lying on the sand, an "armadrillo/vyotiainen" (the animal which looks like a basketball covered with belts) having a stroll on the street, iguana on the back yard, turtles laying their eggs etc. Not to mention all the birds and all the disgusting insects.
A tortugar... Turtle eggs are like soft but tough golf balls and one turtle can easily lay 100 of those. After the nest has been spotted, the eggs will be digged out of the hole and moved into the safe, fenced area as both humans and other species are after them. It´s a pity I will not see the little turtles digging themselves to the surfice after they have been born - the first babies will arrive approximately after one month from now as the season has just started.
A Mexican guy A whose wife cooks for us let me drive his big all-terrain vehicle (quad bike, monkija). Need a bit more practise (apart from sitting on the back of the ATV the other main way of moving oneself around has been sitting on the open air in the back of a pick-up, but I prefer the ATV as it feels it could be less likely to fall down from it and break one's neck or something). A is sometimes just amazing, he for example catched a baby alligator just like that and let us hold it. We let it back to the sea, of course, but the poor animal was all confused and started to run towards us instead of the ocean - everybody was screaming and running like a maniac. Afterwards we were highly ashamed of ourselves. It is not really likely an alligator a bit longer than my arm would have eaten all ten of us. Or how should I know.
I feel twisted, have naturally been speaking mostly Spanish and now the other languages seem to be all mixed up in my head. Just wrote some emails in Finnish. I guess the recipients will think I´m still totally wasted. To make things worse there are some differences between the Spanish Castellano and Mexican Spanish. Currently my main problem seems to be the verb "cojer". That is perfectly normal way to say "to take" in Spain, but here the most closest relative for this word is "follar". That way I end up saying things like "I´m gonna fxxx the bus now". People find it entertaining. Constantly. Also, "Puta madre" means here something bad, not something good like in Spain. And instead of "joder" people many times say simply "jo". Why to use too much energy?
The pace of life is really, really relaxed. Suits fine for me. It´s so hot and humid anyway, better to take it easy. And let some beautiful Pasific waves to hit over your Nordic nitpicker head. Lay on a hammock. Eat some more tortillas.
The house is very basic, and far from the beach. Much more basic than my Spanish trailer, the 5 stars luxyry resort. I´m just trying to not to think about this no-beach-accommodation matter too much, otherwise I will end up camping on the beach and that is not safe. (Although I have a nap there almost every nite, nice and calm on top of my single-use-raincoat. It´s the rainy season now, but compared to Dublin it does not rain almost at all, so the raincoat can serve as a substitute mattress.)
I´m full of mosquito bites, a bit burned on the sun, dirty and smelly. And already tired of having tortillas with tortillas after tortillas for brunch and dinner (having no breakfasts, and if I would I´m sure it would be tortillas as well). But relaxed and happy. Or as happy as I can be considering I came here mainly to spot the baby turtles and I won´t see them at all. And apart from that I came here to stay at the beach listening the ocean while sleeping, but the house is 1 hour walk from the Pasific. But hey, who cares. At least it´s hot and humid and tequila is cheap.
Yesterday we stayed at the beach until 5AM so my head is extremely sore now - tequila tastes fantastic but the next morning you poor thing find yourself weak and faint.
In general I have a feeling I am in a Zoo. Have seen baby alligators lying on the sand, an "armadrillo/vyotiainen" (the animal which looks like a basketball covered with belts) having a stroll on the street, iguana on the back yard, turtles laying their eggs etc. Not to mention all the birds and all the disgusting insects.
A tortugar... Turtle eggs are like soft but tough golf balls and one turtle can easily lay 100 of those. After the nest has been spotted, the eggs will be digged out of the hole and moved into the safe, fenced area as both humans and other species are after them. It´s a pity I will not see the little turtles digging themselves to the surfice after they have been born - the first babies will arrive approximately after one month from now as the season has just started.
A Mexican guy A whose wife cooks for us let me drive his big all-terrain vehicle (quad bike, monkija). Need a bit more practise (apart from sitting on the back of the ATV the other main way of moving oneself around has been sitting on the open air in the back of a pick-up, but I prefer the ATV as it feels it could be less likely to fall down from it and break one's neck or something). A is sometimes just amazing, he for example catched a baby alligator just like that and let us hold it. We let it back to the sea, of course, but the poor animal was all confused and started to run towards us instead of the ocean - everybody was screaming and running like a maniac. Afterwards we were highly ashamed of ourselves. It is not really likely an alligator a bit longer than my arm would have eaten all ten of us. Or how should I know.
I feel twisted, have naturally been speaking mostly Spanish and now the other languages seem to be all mixed up in my head. Just wrote some emails in Finnish. I guess the recipients will think I´m still totally wasted. To make things worse there are some differences between the Spanish Castellano and Mexican Spanish. Currently my main problem seems to be the verb "cojer". That is perfectly normal way to say "to take" in Spain, but here the most closest relative for this word is "follar". That way I end up saying things like "I´m gonna fxxx the bus now". People find it entertaining. Constantly. Also, "Puta madre" means here something bad, not something good like in Spain. And instead of "joder" people many times say simply "jo". Why to use too much energy?
The pace of life is really, really relaxed. Suits fine for me. It´s so hot and humid anyway, better to take it easy. And let some beautiful Pasific waves to hit over your Nordic nitpicker head. Lay on a hammock. Eat some more tortillas.
The house is very basic, and far from the beach. Much more basic than my Spanish trailer, the 5 stars luxyry resort. I´m just trying to not to think about this no-beach-accommodation matter too much, otherwise I will end up camping on the beach and that is not safe. (Although I have a nap there almost every nite, nice and calm on top of my single-use-raincoat. It´s the rainy season now, but compared to Dublin it does not rain almost at all, so the raincoat can serve as a substitute mattress.)
I´m full of mosquito bites, a bit burned on the sun, dirty and smelly. And already tired of having tortillas with tortillas after tortillas for brunch and dinner (having no breakfasts, and if I would I´m sure it would be tortillas as well). But relaxed and happy. Or as happy as I can be considering I came here mainly to spot the baby turtles and I won´t see them at all. And apart from that I came here to stay at the beach listening the ocean while sleeping, but the house is 1 hour walk from the Pasific. But hey, who cares. At least it´s hot and humid and tequila is cheap.
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