According to our mayor, the Covid-19 section of the hospital is only 60% full. According to a doctor I saw today who works there, the hospital's Covid-19 is almost overwhelmed with a few 50-somethings who didn't get vaccinated and young people who also haven't been able to get vaccinated. Supplies of oxygen are reported to be running short. Multiple deaths from Covid-19 have been occurring daily this past week.

Currently Zihuatanejo officially registers 412 active Covid-19 infections. La Unión currently registers 12 while Petatlán registers 21. Even local and state officials and health experts admit that if more testing were done those numbers would all be much higher.

Speaking of higher...
Last night and this morning the waves were quite high, though watching the waves hit the rocks at the mouth of the bay it was obvious that the open ocean was experiencing much bigger waves than we were here in our lovely sheltered bay.

Saw numerous turtle tracks on the beach this morning. A couple didn't lay. One set of tracks looked like a pinball bouncing off of all the obstacles on the beach: a sign, cement posts, new palm trees, the new walkway. The reduced space on the beach is quite noticeable to me. I also heard the beach dogs barking quite a bit last night which suggests they may have been harassing the turtles, though I can't be sure. Their footprints also suggested the same.

A shame we have no institution to take care of this problem. If we call the government they're likely to just shoot the dogs like they've done before, and they really are very nice dogs. Not their fault they're abandoned on the beach. I wouldn't want to see any harm come to them. SPAZ is already doing an amazing job for always being overwhelmed. Can't ask more from them than they're already doing. The local government wants to ban pets from beaches for stupid reasons but does absolutely NOTHING regarding stray and abandoned dogs, the real problem, including those with irresponsible owners who simply let them run loose.

¡Cuidemos nuestro patrimonio!
#NoAlBlueFlag
#NoAlBlueFlagEnPlayaLaMadera
#PreservemosPlayaManzanillo

One of many responsible local residents who takes his morning exercise with his furrier family members that the local government wants to ban from our beaches in the hopes more Europeans will come visit. If Europeans don't like pets on beaches I'd prefer they went elsewhere, not our pets.