On the Let's Chat FB pages there have been quite a few complaints about high prices, mostly from Canadians, I think it might be an exchange rate issue. I wonder if this could be the reason for fewer visitors?

Canadians still seem to outnumber visitors from the USA, though that's just a perception made by local shopkeepers and from seeing hockey games instead of U.S. football games on TVs in bars and restaurants that I walk past. Canadians have always tended to be more frugal, yet they stay longer and help our economy for a longer period of time. Same as they did in Florida when I lived there.

For those of us here in Zihuatanejo, this Monday began with a full moon setting to the west while the sun climbed over the hill to the east in a mostly cloudless sky and a waveless bay. A totally pacific ocean. A truly stress-free zone.

However, once again on a day when the streets and beaches should be teeming with visitors, there are relatively few visitors here apart from some extranjeros, mostly Canadians, and a very few cooler-toting visitors waiting for the water taxi ticket office to open so they can go to Playa Las Gatas. Except for during the pandemia and when the war in Kuwait broke out, I don't recall seeing Zihuatanejo so void of tourism at this date.

You can find the calendar of events that the municipal government has planned to celebrate Christmas on my Community Notices & Events page.

As I mentioned yesterday, you may have heard some shouts of ¡GOOOOOOL! Sunday night during the tournament championship match between América and Monterrey. América won its third tournament championship in a year, making them tricampeones for the second time, the last time being the '83-'84 season. In Mexico City fans filled the streets around the Monumento del Ángel and celebrated for hours. Here the fans drove around honking their horns and waving América flags.

Whale watching season officially began this Sunday, though they've been in the region for several weeks now. With the ocean so calm, now's a perfect time to charter a boat to go see them and spend a day enjoying the view of our beautiful coastline from the ocean. See my recommendations for certified charter captains.
https://www.zihuatanejo.net/activities.html#fishcharters

Lupita and I enjoyed being guests at a homage this Monday evening at the Casa de la Cultura for our dear and extremely talented poet, writer and songwriter friend José Antonio Urbina Bello. A very moving event with poetry by Raúl Román, Omar Galeana and several others whose names escape me at the moment along with music by some of Toño's friends. Those of you who've been coming here for years may remember the bald gentleman with his stainless steel "Paralibros" (a loaning library) and a table of his own books and poems at Plaza del Artista before the pandemia and the so-called "remodelación" of the plaza. He wrote the song I posted above: Bendito Puerto.

It sprinkled tonight while we walked home from the Casa de la Cultura. ¡Guau!

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Una chica camina en Playa Principal este lunes durante el amanecer cuando la bahía de Zihuatanejo era tan tranquila que ni olas hubo. Hasta los veleros anclados ni se mecieron. Por ser tan tranquilo, se llama el Océano Pacífico.