Ka-Plop! Poor fish! He just slid sown the Pelican gullet. The birds are so amazing and fun to watch! We love the wave skimming, the fishing dives,and the new sounds of early morning birds that live in our neighborhood down here. We thought you’d like a few examples. Crane Fly-by Pelican Fly-by …
Month: November 2018
Have we told you we have a great property manager? He knew we wanted fresh fish, so gave us a head’s up text about the fishermen selling their catch of fresh Liza. They weren’t even gutted yet. Thanks Manuel! They are delicious! I don’t even have a filet knife yet, so sharpened what I have …
Saturday Night! Date night with my sweetheart! For these mountain land lubbers, we start hankerin’ for something they didn’t catch a little below sea level. Wa-La! Our go-to Saturday night, on-the-beach restaurant, Muelle de Sisal, has one non-fish pizza on the menu on weekends. They fire up the wood outdoor oven and make an excellent …
It feels a bit like paradise! Will the newness of it all eventually wear off? It sure hasn’t yet! And, we hope it never does. Since you can’t just drop by to enjoy it with us (although we’d love that!), we’ll share it with you through pics!
We are quickly learning about weather patterns on the beach of Northern Yucatan! “Norte” was a new term for us. It was used with other exclamations like “Button down!” and “Strong winds!”. We heard it would start Tuesday evening and go into Thursday morning – 36+ hours! Yet our ever-so-trustworthy weather apps were saying …
When you’re in Colorado and you’ve never been to Northern Yucatan, you close your eyes and point at the map and say, “I’ll try that town”. We didn’t really do that, but we made the best choice we could from a distance, knowing at least a little of what we wanted. But after we’d explored …
Welcome to our home in Sisal! We will tell you why we are in Sisal in the next post, but we couldn’t wait to have you ‘join us’ in this home! It is appropriately called The Nautical House. Ben walks you around the outside of the property (and to the beach!) in the first …
In the northwest corner of the Yucatan Peninsula, in the middle of a wildlife sanctuary (ie. flamingos!), sits a relatively busy fishing village called Celestun. We have learned the catch of the day, during this time of year, is octupus. Celestun sits 60 miles west of Merida. As you enter the town, it’s …
Long walk-able beaches. Sounds of the Gulf reaching the shoreline. Clean downtown. Fresh coconut water. Those are just some of the sites, sounds and tastes(!) we enjoyed as we explored Telchac during our ‘northern fishing villages’ tour. In our goal to find the ‘right’ area for us, we hired a touring guide to introduce us to …
We celebrated Ben’s birthday on the beach in Progreso! Our celebration included delicious breakfast at Crabster’s (a restaurant along the Malecon (boardwalk-like) strolling along the shoreline a dip in the Gulf to cool off (Carma) shopping for a guayabera, a Yucatecan men’s shirt (although we didn’t find one…yet) leisurely sipping fresh limonadas under a palapa on …