I read a local post about someone seeing grunions on the beach, thousands of them....ok a grunion is a tiny fish that comes up on the beach, usually by the light of the moon, wiggles down into the sand, lays eggs and is back out with the next wave. But these came out in the evening, before dark. There are 2 types; on the East Coast they do come up the beach in the darkness, so not sure why these are coming up in the light. But these are California grunions and (of course) I googled them and it says they come up 2-6 nights after a full moon- notice it says nites, so maybe daylight savings time got them mixed up. And even though they don't have a huge population, a female can lay as many as 18,000 eggs over a season, which is March thru August. Of course in the post I read, comments were made about these grunions being afraid to come out after dark in Mexico..yeah ha ha ha ha. If we were down in Guerrero I could understand, but here, it's pretty safe at nite...even in the water...
This afternoon we went down to the beach at Las Conchas, the area I like the best cause of the lack of rocky shelves, ect. As soon as we hit the beach we saw a school of dolphins not all that far out. It was low tide, just starting to think about coming back in, and we walked really far out and were still just waist high. By then the dolphins had moved on. I'm sure they were eating cause there were lots of seagulls and pelicans out there as well, and they all moved on except for a few birds. It was very cool to watch the pelicans close up, in Playa Ventura they flew close to the shore and I had never realized just how cool pelicans are before watching them fly, spot something, and dive in! Today I was much further out in the water than I ever was in Playa Ventura, but that's because this is not open ocean. I believe it's about 150 miles across at it's widest point, and 700 miles long, so it's not just a bay- but the waves are not crashing in like open ocean. The distance we were out there today would have put us beyond the wave break in Playa Ventura.
Once Everado did find himself out beyond where the waves were forming, and he got kinda stuck...At first I had tried to swim out to him but he was waving me away...When he finally came in, our friend Gume told us that he had been watching him, thinking, crap, I'm gonna have to go out there and save that bastard ha ha. Everardo said he was getting kinda worried out there, but he finally crossed back in. The problem was, it was end of the summer, and not the best time, not the safest time to be out very far in the ocean. It was the rainy season; hurricane season on the eastern side of Mexico, and we got the tail end of the storms being so far south like we were. They told us in Jan-March we could go way out, that it was shallow way out, that the ocean was super calm, but of course by then, we were up here. You think- the rainy season? Why were you swimming in the rainy season? Well it was raining but it was still 100 degrees outside, and the ocean water was still warm like a bathtub, so yeah, we went swimming every day, rain or shine. But the ocean was rough, and swimming, even close in, was tiring. You got pushed all over the place. So when we could go from the beach to Chela & Gume's pool- now that was refreshing. There the water was still warm, but you could simply laze about, float, chat....
So today was the first time I went swimming and the water was cool but not cold. It was nice, oh! And I saw this really long fish jump in and out of the water..3 times! Not like an arc- the way you think of a fish jumping. This was like almost straight up, then he went back in tail first. I yelled hey did you see that!, and that! and that! Poppi was laughing. We floated around until Sam was really huffing and puffing, and then we moved in closer to where he could stand up (ha ha) and then threw the ball for him some more. Yeah, Sam brought the ball out in the water with him. He has gone back to being ball obsessed....Well to be fair there's no sticks on the beach to throw into the water...
Then we went back in to the beach to relax on our towels and watch Sam dig holes in the sand...and a lady walked by and asked if I wanted a massage...she had a table and everything. Well being married to a fellow vendor is good- I had a massage, about 45 min, for 200 pesos , about $16usd. Very nice. Looks like the weather will be shorts and tees from now on..yipee.
This afternoon we went down to the beach at Las Conchas, the area I like the best cause of the lack of rocky shelves, ect. As soon as we hit the beach we saw a school of dolphins not all that far out. It was low tide, just starting to think about coming back in, and we walked really far out and were still just waist high. By then the dolphins had moved on. I'm sure they were eating cause there were lots of seagulls and pelicans out there as well, and they all moved on except for a few birds. It was very cool to watch the pelicans close up, in Playa Ventura they flew close to the shore and I had never realized just how cool pelicans are before watching them fly, spot something, and dive in! Today I was much further out in the water than I ever was in Playa Ventura, but that's because this is not open ocean. I believe it's about 150 miles across at it's widest point, and 700 miles long, so it's not just a bay- but the waves are not crashing in like open ocean. The distance we were out there today would have put us beyond the wave break in Playa Ventura.
Once Everado did find himself out beyond where the waves were forming, and he got kinda stuck...At first I had tried to swim out to him but he was waving me away...When he finally came in, our friend Gume told us that he had been watching him, thinking, crap, I'm gonna have to go out there and save that bastard ha ha. Everardo said he was getting kinda worried out there, but he finally crossed back in. The problem was, it was end of the summer, and not the best time, not the safest time to be out very far in the ocean. It was the rainy season; hurricane season on the eastern side of Mexico, and we got the tail end of the storms being so far south like we were. They told us in Jan-March we could go way out, that it was shallow way out, that the ocean was super calm, but of course by then, we were up here. You think- the rainy season? Why were you swimming in the rainy season? Well it was raining but it was still 100 degrees outside, and the ocean water was still warm like a bathtub, so yeah, we went swimming every day, rain or shine. But the ocean was rough, and swimming, even close in, was tiring. You got pushed all over the place. So when we could go from the beach to Chela & Gume's pool- now that was refreshing. There the water was still warm, but you could simply laze about, float, chat....
So today was the first time I went swimming and the water was cool but not cold. It was nice, oh! And I saw this really long fish jump in and out of the water..3 times! Not like an arc- the way you think of a fish jumping. This was like almost straight up, then he went back in tail first. I yelled hey did you see that!, and that! and that! Poppi was laughing. We floated around until Sam was really huffing and puffing, and then we moved in closer to where he could stand up (ha ha) and then threw the ball for him some more. Yeah, Sam brought the ball out in the water with him. He has gone back to being ball obsessed....Well to be fair there's no sticks on the beach to throw into the water...
Then we went back in to the beach to relax on our towels and watch Sam dig holes in the sand...and a lady walked by and asked if I wanted a massage...she had a table and everything. Well being married to a fellow vendor is good- I had a massage, about 45 min, for 200 pesos , about $16usd. Very nice. Looks like the weather will be shorts and tees from now on..yipee.
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