Tropical Storm Marty

The latest satellite image shows Marty appearing to veer off to the northwest. We may have dodged another bullet, though it's still too soon to tell.

We've had some intermittent light rains this morning and some nice breezes in Zihuatanejo since yesterday, but as we returned from Ixtapa late yesterday afternoon we could see that the open ocean was quite churned up with white caps off to the horizon. Nevertheless, in Zihuatanejo Bay it's quite a different story. While the waves were somewhat large and the storm surge had the waves breaking high up on the beach, you could still just about water-ski in our beautiful sheltered bay.

This was the scene this morning right as a light rain started to fall. Notice the turtle nest in the foreground, and if you look carefully you'll see turtle tracks all over the place. Unfortunately I believe the nests are being dug up by turtle egg thieves as well as by stray dogs, though I haven't actually witnessed this. There have been too many dogs living on the beach during the past few months and they are known turtle egg predators, and the number of "vagabonds" sleeping on the beach whom others have told me they've seen stealing the eggs has also increased during the past few months that the turtles have been nesting.