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I recently visited and thought the improved downtown streets looked great. Hoping they do something similar with the walkway at capricio del rey. The progress there looks beautiful with the same curved style walls they put in at principal. They installed many palm trees too which will look great if they do the same landscape lighting they have at principal.

We'll just have to agree to disagree. The little beach may not have been your favorite, but it didn't deserve to be buried under tons of rocks and boulders, and neither did the marine ecosystem 20 meters from the shoreline along that entire stretch from La Gaviota to CAPRICHO del Rey. That's known as ECOCIDE in my book. Altering the coastline is supposed to be against the law, which is why I'm convinced the project doesn't have a Manifiesto de Impacto Ambiental (a document required by law).

And the lighting on the downtown walkway is simply LIGHT POLLUTION. Especially detrimental to nesting and hatching sea turtles.

For folks who didn't like the old dirt path (that the rest of us have loved for decades), compressed gravel or macadam would've sufficed without having to kill the mangrove trees (protected by federal law) or the dozens of other old shade-providing trees that were unceremoniously (and probably illegally) removed from there. The palm trees don't provide anywhere near the same amount of shade, and their use is actually just another money-making scam for the politicians involved. So now it will be a hot walk most of the day, particularly at the end of the day and well into the evening (and to hell with the wildlife, right?), even worse than the downtown waterfront where we simply don't walk during most of the daytime for lack of shade and suffocating heat.

Such a shame to see people coming here who DON'T appreciate our natural beauty and want us to look like Miami Beach. With all due respect, such people belong in Manzanillo, Vallarta, Cancún, Acapulco or Los Cabos. Places the people of Zihuatanejo have always hoped we would never imitate.