A Whiff of Zih

A most beautiful woman greeted me this morning with her lovely smile, a warm kiss and a mug of some of the best coffee I've ever had. A morning routine in our home. Did I mention I'm The Luckiest Gringo in Mexico? Pobres los demás.

The city has been working on fixing the mouth of La Boquita canal before the rainy season starts, something that has needed doing for years. They're working hard to try to save two coconut palms and a guamuchil tree that were all in danger of falling into the canal along with the failing wall. A new wall is being built, but due to seepage from the ocean they have to spend a lot of time and energy pumping water out of the mouth of the canal. Fortunately the ocean has been extremely calm lately in the bay, and a natural barra formed at the mouth of the canal to help keep the ocean water out. If the city can save all three trees it will be a small miracle that we and many of our neighbors who use the walkway daily will be extremely grateful for.

Work on the pier remains held up, but no one seems to know why with any certainty.

Hope to see you all at Casa Marina at 7pm this evening for the art exposition by Guadalupe Gaytán and Magdaleno Flores. A lot of good folks will be there.

What a privilege to have views like this practically right out our front door.

Dry season has taken hold and our unique selva baja caducifolia is in its dormant mode waiting for the next rains.

Rob, any update and or recent pictures of the work on the paseo

Rob, any update and or recent pictures of the work on the paseo

There have been some photos here if you go back through my "Zih" posts. The workers are doing a good job even if I don't like where the beach has been paved over in places. Looks like they're going to expand the platform at the west end of La Madera Beach, and we lost one of the beach accesses to the Paseo at the very north end of La Madera. The solar lights made with stainless steel are great except they used steel bolts to attach them to their concrete anchors, and so they are doomed to corrode at the base, and of course the batteries will probably get stolen as will the electric cable if the past is any indicator.

They broke up a particular rock I liked that I always walked on since before there was even a walkway, so I wasn't happy about that. The plantings look good. Let's hope they get watered. Someone already stole one of the long nylon ropes, so all were removed until the politicians are ready to pose in front of it during its inauguración. Little sitting areas will have some kind of roof structure, which is one of the things they're currently working on.

I already noticed this past rainy season that parts of the walkway where it was widened get struck harder by the waves when the marea is up. It'll be interesting to see how it wears and if it causes erosion in parts of the beach where the beach was further invaded.

Gotta hand it to the workers for stretching out the project for so long. Job security!

Mother nature has a way of reclaiming what man takes from her. Should be interesting.