San Blas is a lovely old Mexical town south of Mazatlan. Known as the location where the franciscian monks left from to conquer the indigenous inhabitants of California. Was thinking of the recent Columbus Day celebration renamed as Indigenous Persons Day by my daughter years ago. Both there and in La Paz they pulled no punches in describing how much the Spanish destroyed an existing culture. The town square (Zocolo?) was filled with local families on the weekend showing off their new dresses and shoes.
Took a panga ride up the estuary to look at more birds and crocs. They raise baby crocs and release them in the estuary. As expected there is no swimming anywhere except in 1 very protected by underwarer fence location. The biggest croc we saw swimming was about 8 feet long. Quite different here in La Cruz which is just northwest of Puerto Vallarta. What i can tell so far is that La Cruz works hard to maintain its small town atmosphere. Tougue tacos, roasted sweet potatoes and banannas from street vebdors with steam whistles and wood fired boilers on their carts.
Green Bay just scored another touchdown and the score is now 14-0 Packers. I wonder, does listening to the Packers/Bears game in spanish count as language school? We also can't also understand why there is steam or smoks coming out of the players mouths and noses? Are they all smokers?
Weather is great and sailing friends appear and sail away. A moving transient community that Harp will join me in traveling on in 2 weeks or so.
Aloha
Ken
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