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Guerrero's health officials report there are currently 26 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Zihuatanejo, 1 in La Unión, NO cases in Petatlán, 1 in Técpan, 116 in Acapulco, and 749 in the entire state. Even with all the tourism the numbers continue falling. We must be doing something right.

After a warm humid night we received a drenching refreshing rain early this Wednesday morning that caused our temps to drop abruptly. Felt great! And there was hardly anyone out when I went for my morning walk with our dog Blue. Had the beach almost all to myself. The tracks of a turtle nest had mostly been washed away by the rain, and it didn't look like it had been disturbed. Let's hope the crowds of beachgoers don't damage the eggs.

Lots of folks here are hoping this last week and a half of summer tourism sees a lot of visitors spending a lot of money. I'm not so optimistic. We may be getting large numbers of visitors mostly by bus, but they just don't spend very much, and I suspect we'll see a lot more local businesses close forever before the high season starts again in November. Locals can only adapt so much to changing circumstances before the bottom line catches up with them and they just don't make enough money to live on. We've even adapted Lupita's Boutique by selling less expensive items instead of the beautiful hand embroidered traditional clothing we usually sell (and which we'll put back on the shelves later this fall), but even so sales are slow, and if we had to pay rent like most businesses we simply couldn't survive on the tourists we currently receive. I suspect a lot of other locals are experiencing the same thing. Our current low-purchasing power visitors cannot sustain our community. Something I keep reminding our local government of when they don't attend to problems such as noise pollution or the lack of good local medical care and instead prefer to see how much painted concrete they can get away with pouring on no-bid public contracts. Though they may try to ignore me, other locals pick up my messages and repeat them, and slowly but surely more and more folks are agreeing with and expressing things I've been saying for too many years.

Playa Potosí Resort is open and ready for visitors. An enchanting small inn on the beach within easy walking distance to the villa of Barra de Potosí, they offer four 1-bedroom vacation bungalows and a pool set amid the shade of coconut palms and located on the beach at Playa Blanca.
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Early evening at Zihuatanejo's downtown beach by the pier.