Recuperándose de las CelebraZIHones

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.