Sunrise walks, sunset vistas, seashell ambles, cooling gulf breezes, surf sounds at night, quiet morning swims… have satisfied something in our cores… so we’re coming back next fall. same beach, same house, same wonderful landlord. See you again soon, Sisal!
Well…we asked…and then breathlessly discovered what we never would have guessed! Here is the progression; from birth to adult. We’ll start with a video showing how the sea shell egg case is laid. Amazing! (We didn’t do this video. This is one of the videos we saw that took our breath away!) Now we’ll start …
Vi and Ridell are awesome neighbors! They bought a ranch a couple of hours from Sisal 16 years ago. About 6 years ago they moved to the beach two houses down from us and took in these newbies shortly after we arrived. The ranch is on the market, but hasn’t sold yet, so they were …
I’ve done a lot of paddling while I was sitting down, but my sweetheart (Carma) has loved doing it standing up. Who am I to argue with someone I love this much. So I was excited. Three hours of sunrise tour standing on a stylized plank, covering numerous kilometers of still morning waters watching the …
Who doesn’t want to sail on captivating crystal waters of every blue hue? So we did. On a catamaran with three others and a crew of two. We sailed in shallow waters azurely colored. We swam in the chest deep water’s of Pirate’s Canal. We ate a lunch of freshly cut mangoes and bananas and …
Five and a half hour drive, kitty-corner from Sisal on the Yucatan Peninsula. Recommended by people we had met. Off we went for eight days. We were not impressed when we drove in. We ate a decent lunch on the strip along the highway coming into town, looked around a little, and found our way …
We shared videos of our sunrise Flamingo tour in our last post. Here, we share the story in pics. Enjoy!
A couple of hundred yards behind our house in Sisal is a lagoon. So near but yet so far! From Seashore to Lagoon is like changing countries! The birds love the Mangrove Islands and the shallow waters. So did we! This post shows you the videos of our tour. We are at this moment in …
It has been used as currency. It was a nobility drink. It is a fruit! These are just a few of the fascinating details we learned about chocolate as we leisurely strolled through the outdoor “Museo del Chocolate”, sipping our chocolate drinks. Well, one of us was sipping a chocolate drink. The other, an espresso. …
Forts and walled cities and cannons and swords and swashbucklers and pirate ships and treasures… Put it together with beautiful buildings and street cafes and good food and fireworks and romance and warm evenings… I can’t wait to go back and be part of the movie! But I can’t imagine what it was really like …