Tourism Observations

A big complaint about the Blue Flag area of la Ropa. There are now at high season, 4 sets of trash containers. The main one, the one at the beach end of the Artisans Market, between The Thompson and Villa Mexicana, are removed at night!!!! In the morning, aside from trash on the beach, there is a GIANT mountain of garbage of all descriptions just mounded on the cement at the end of the market area. The workers come about 9, but first they have to spread it all out, sort it and photograph it before they can bag and take it up to the street. This usually takes a full hour.

We are out there paddling and swimming and people tend to think we belong here. They complain bitterly about the lack of trash cans and the performance of spreading all the garbage out and photographing it before making it go away. They ask us why something hasn't been done. We have no response.

Somebody needs to do something. Holding our breaths? Nope.

It's all a dog & pony show. Taking away the trash containers at night and only having FOUR to begin with just goes to prove how serious they aren't. This is the same problem on La Ropa as FOREVER. Except that now they've run off most of the people who used to go there, so it's all for APPEARANCES sake.