Rob, it's a shame we users on do not often express our appreciation for your talents. Please know that it is appreciated and do continue with your excellent choice of music and your beautiful photos. When I hear the music and view the photos, my mind immediately transports me to Zihua. Keep up the good work! I will comment more often.

¡Muchas gracias! Your feedback is much appreciated.

Your music is great, but makes me home sick for Ixtapa /Zihautenajo. Your pictures are nothing short of professional and I repost many on Facebook. Up here in Manitoba we have gone 10 days without any new cases and have only 4 active cases so we are booked to return in late October. Hopefully, all things staying the same, there will be no infected people from here bringing any virus problems. See you in November

Thanks, RD.

What terrific news about Manitoba! Talk about a group effort. Amazing!

Seems to be that more and more locals are using masks and practicing safe hygiene, but I continue to see too many smiling tourists without them, mostly families from the inland cities here only for a day or two. Lots of us still aren't going out much, so the streets mostly look bleak and empty. I suspect a lot of people have also moved away or gone back to wherever they came here from.

Have really enjoyed your selection of Latin rhythms lately, Rob. Thanks.

Thank you very much for the feedback. I truly appreciate it. It's all a labor of love.

We definitely have more foreign visitors, and they increase every Saturday.

Today is not only the regular Alaska flight from Los Angeles, but the Phoenix flights start too.

post by Timmac:

"You should rethink your request for visitors, at least from the states. We have lost control up here, with higher new case rates than ever and deaths are increasing. You really don’t want to import more from the states. It seems likely that we will have to lockdown areas again."

@Timmac
1. I'd like to also see real objective statistics showing exactly how many International tourists are arriving to Z by jet, average per day, per week, etc.

I don't see many "gringo"/ "Foreigner" tourists wandering around here in Z, at least in the areas I pass by.

2. Awhile back, the talk I heard was that the effort was to promote Mexican national tourism from within México, verus encouraging, advocating, and/or promoting "Foreigners" to travel from the USA, Canada, etc., to México.

Is that still a component of the plan to get the tourism sector of the economy on an upswing, here in Z, and in other destinations in México as well?

I understand that many people there need to work to live. We are now required to wear masks everywhere and our numbers are still increasing, largely because we relaxed things way too quickly. While I don’t have extensive knowledge of the medical system there, from comments I’ve seen it is currently stressed. Importing new asymptomatic folks from the states is not likely to help. I don’t pretend to know what is best for Zihuatanejo, but am very concerned that more tourists will make a bad situation worse.

We think we're learning how to receive such folks and keep ourselves safe from them, at least that seems to be the feeling I get from the hotel and restaurant owners workers I've been in touch with. Folks here are determined to try to prevent us from going back into the Semáforo Rojo which means a shutdown of the businesses and the closing of he beaches again. The government wasn't happy with how things went last weekend, so I expect them to be more vigilant. The drownings yesterday are another setback, but everyone has been trying to warn tourists about the mar de fondo.

I don't have an answer. We approach things differently here.

It's reaching the point where I need to just not read peoples thoughts and/or keep my thoughts to myself.

Quesadillas La Tradicional, Victors place on the beach side of the Mercado is a great example. He has eliminated one of the two long tables, removed many of the chairs so that proper distancing is respected. He and his two girls are masked, gloved, and using sanitizer regularly.

What really impressed us was that he brought the sanitizer to us and said that we HAD to use it because we were eating finger food.

More painful, Victor is a hugger, and we love him, but now it's a knuckle bump and his comments that maybe someday he hopes that we can hug again.

Everyone is doing their best to make sure that we are as safe as we can possibly be.

We are seeing more masks on just the general population shopping in the Mercado area. I hate the mask, but realize that if we are all going to get along, it's necessary, so I wear it.

Come to Zihuatanejo. Share our paradise and be careful so we all stay healthy!

It’s been a couple months since I’ve gazed at your message board, lo siento, but glad health abides. We left a deposit in March and plan on using it come NY Eve when we return. Just bought our exit row tix for the 90 day visit. Two old rock n roll gringo bastards with autoimmune issues. What could go wrong? Saludos!

If a vaccine isn't out by the end of the year, I expect the travel and hospitality industries will have their health safety protocols well established and down pat by then to make traveling a lot safer than it may currently be. Gives new meaning to the saying "it's the journey that counts, not the destination."

I'm sure you'll appreciate this if you haven't already seen it.

https://youtu.be/kSpGnZmGWBk

I love your music!

Thanks, Susan!

Jose, our wonderful turtle guardian is out there daily now cleaning the beach and moving nests that are in a bad place.

We had three turtle haul outs overnight, at least that were still visible, on Playa la Ropa this morning.

Our numbers aren't huge, maybe 10 in June and fewer in May, but we are hoping that it's just a case of them starting out more slowly this year!

That's good news. We've seen them at La Madera, but we think one of the local veladores may be stealing and selling them.

I always play the music while I read your posts and enjoy your pictures. If I like the music, I listen to all of it! I like today's! And I listened to the next one cued up by Youtube too. Very nice.

Thanks, Stu.

Our numbers aren't huge, maybe 10 in June and fewer in May, but we are hoping that it's just a case of them starting out more slowly this year!

The waves this morning were medium to medium large, but very close together. We opted not to try to out run Poseidon, so didn't swim this morning.

We lost two tourists to drownings yesterday. One in the morning on Ixtapa's Playa El Palmar right in front of the Hotel Emporio, and another one late yesterday afternoon on Playa Blanca. Apparently there are no salvavidas in either place, and in spite of the enormous waves produced by the mar de fondo, people still decided to enter the ocean.

I still haven't seen one turtle nest for months on Playa Principal. probably thanks to the dogs chasing them off when they come out of the water to lay their eggs.

It's been a while since anyone has even commented on the music I've been posting with my daily updates and photos for these past several months. I won't waste my time and effort if no one is listening to them. And here I thought at least some of y'all would enjoy the tunes.

Please consider making your reservations for your vacation now and sending in your deposits to help local lodging providers get up and running after months with no income. Many have been helping their workers who haven't been working by paying them at least half wages. Lots of folks have come together to help each other here including many of you without whose help a lot of local families would be extremely malnourished.
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Adiós a Cristina.