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After a typical noisy Saturday night, we awoke to a beautiful Sunday morning of mild temperatures, a light breeze, partial cloud cover that helped keep the temperature down, and streets empty of tourists. Though we did see a few arrive later dragging their suitcases towards the beach. Must've been new arrivals who'd just gotten off the bus.

Hardly a tourist to be seen today. All the beaches in Zihuatanejo were mostly empty. Same as the downtown waterfront. Restaurants were mostly empty. Taxis were circling like vultures. It's always a little sad to see the last day of summer vacation end with such a fizzle, but frankly it's something we've had to get used to since our local politicians started putting their unbridled greed and ambitions over the best interests of the community. Our golden age was back when they only took a little off the top. Now they want the whole damn pie and then spit in our faces and call it sharing. Let's see if they can buy the next local election after the damage they've done.

The waves have picked up, and they seem to be entering the bay at an angle that makes them bigger on the eastern side of the bay so that they haven't made swimming at the downtown beach as much of a challenge as at La Ropa. There were some beginner surfers at La Madera this morning, but I forgot to check the point at Las Gatas.

Most of the small restaurants of Zihuatanejo's Mercado Municipal are back in their area again. Amazingly, even though they were in the street for seven long months, after being promised it would only be a couple of months, most of the work done was only cosmetic. Painting and throwing patches of new cement onto the same old rusted rebar. The restaurant operators are not impressed. Fortunately, we cast our votes in secret at election time. *wink wink*

A pair of sea turtles has apparently spent about 5 days hooked together in the northern section of Zihuatanejo's bay, and I and others saw them again today. I've never seen them copulate for this long before, and I wonder if something isn't wrong and they need assistance.

Storms keep forming off our coast and heading out to sea. We're getting some of the clouds that accompany them, but somehow the rain keeps mostly missing us. There was a huge beautiful storm to our east this afternoon that looked like it was coming our way, but then it petered out. ¡Tamos sala'o!

Villas Los Arcos at Playa La Ropa is a wonderful lodging I truly enjoy being able to recommend. As if La Ropa isn't beautiful enough, this exquisitely designed and decorated lodging is a place one feels instantly at home in. I wish visitors would simply spend more time in lodgings like this instead of cutting down more of our trees and clearing more land to build more vacation and retirement homes. (click to enlarge photo)
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Pangas de pesca en Playa Principal de Zihuatanejo durante la mañana de otro día hermoso en el paraíso.