Water Quality at Barra
by ZihuaRob 
, Zihuatanejo, México, Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 14:42 (4364 days ago) @ Sea Swirl Girl
I don't know why you would avoid water in Zihuatanejo Bay. Only the Playa Principal is generally not a good place to swim.
From my experience swimming in the mouth of any lagoon has its drawbacks. You are getting the water from everything upstream, and there are no towns upstream from La Barra that have wastewater treatment plants. That said, I wouldn't hesitate to swim there even during the rainy season, and in fact I have many many times over the past two and a half decades. But I also use soap in the shower and clean my ears with Q-tips. The only time I've ever had any problems from swimming in the ocean was two simultaneous ear infections that I got from swimming at the beach of Protestant Key in Christiansted Harbor in St. Croix, USVI in the Caribbean.
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- Water Quality at Barra - Sea Swirl Girl, 2014-09-16, 14:34
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- Water Quality at Barra - ZihuaRob, 2014-09-16, 14:42
- Water Quality at Barra - Dabuilder, 2014-09-16, 16:04
- Water Quality at Barra - ZihuaRob, 2014-09-16, 17:39
- Water Quality at Barra - norm, 2014-09-18, 16:55
- Water Quality at Barra - Gringo Viejo, 2014-09-18, 17:14
- Water Quality at Barra - norm, 2014-09-19, 08:43
- Water Quality at Barra - Sea Swirl Girl, 2014-09-27, 19:22
- Water Quality at Barra - LadyM in Zihua, 2014-09-28, 00:27
- Water quality in the bay - katherine, 2014-09-28, 07:17
- Water Quality at Barra - Sea Swirl Girl, 2014-09-27, 19:22
- Water Quality at Barra - norm, 2014-09-19, 08:43
- Water Quality at Barra - Gringo Viejo, 2014-09-18, 17:14
- Water Quality at Barra - Dabuilder, 2014-09-16, 16:04
- Water Quality at Barra - ZihuaRob, 2014-09-16, 14:42
