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by ZihuaRob ⌂ @, Zihuatanejo, México, Saturday, January 01, 2022, 21:21 (1775 days ago)


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According to Guerrero's state health authorities Zihuatanejo currently has 27 confirmed active cases of Covid-19, while neighboring Petatlán and La Unión have 0.

While visitors enjoy themselves every way imaginable to celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of another, it's a very different story for many of us who work and live here, similar as it is in every tourist destinations. Personally, I've almost always worked during the Christmas and New Year's holidays with few exceptions. This is typically when most of us are busiest. And the night of Fin del Año Viejo most years has seen our family at home caring for our pets. On many holidays we simply go out to celebrate much earlier with a big comida before the restaurants get crowded. This year we enjoyed delicious salads and pizzas at air-conditioned Emilio's in Zihuatanejo. Hardly anyone was there, and we had a front row seat for people watching as hundreds of families returned from a day at Las Gatas. A Tránsito friend of ours had his lunch that he was trying to eat but had to keep putting down to deal with traffic and help tourists. Poor guy still had it in his hand mostly uneaten after an hour.

The loud thumping of music was thankfully over by 4AM, allowing us a few hours of quality sleep before the folks with leaf blowers showed up at 7AM (a half hour later than yesterday) to clean the plaza across the street and the rest of the walkway. We can barely wait until the kids are back in school next Wednesday and hopefully the crowds go back home and mostly more affluent visitors remain.

Now that the crowds will be leaving it's a good time to come visit.
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Crowds of visitors continue enjoying Zihuatanejo's Playa Principal late into the afternoon.
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Recuperándose de las CelebraZIHones

by Tere @, Sunday, January 02, 2022, 08:13 (1774 days ago) @ ZihuaRob

And a big shout-out (MIL GRACIAS) to the protection civil and ecologia workers who were at the pier yesterday making sure people were wearing masks, dumping sand, rocks and shells back into the ocean and taking away a turtle someone was trying to take home!

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Recuperándose de las CelebraZIHones

by ZihuaRob ⌂ @, Zihuatanejo, México, Sunday, January 02, 2022, 08:49 (1774 days ago) @ Tere

And a big shout-out (MIL GRACIAS) to the protection civil and ecologia workers who were at the pier yesterday making sure people were wearing masks, dumping sand, rocks and shells back into the ocean and taking away a turtle someone was trying to take home!

The depredation of Las Gatas and Isla Ixtapa by our holiday visitors is always devastating to the environment. All the folks who walk there have no one checking what they leave the beach with, and I'm sure the "filter" at the pier misses a lot. A tourist was all upset on Facebook the other day because a family was taken away in handcuffs after getting caught trying to steal live coral. "How could we treat tourists like this?" they complained. How can visitors be so disrespectful of our destination?! A baby sea turtle! I hope Ecología fined them instead of just taking it away from them. But I doubt it, which is why folks do things like that in the first place.

Gracias por el reporte, Tere.