Mexico, June 2013

How about some pictures from Mexico?

Mrs. TANBI and I got some time away and actually left the U. S. of A.  We spent a couple of days on the Mayan Riviera.

Here's the view from the lobby...

The resort is actually pretty far from the beach.  It's there, just at the edge of your view.  The bulk of the rooms are actually cottages spread out around this lagoon.  To the far left in the image you can see the hotel proper and a hint of the first of five pools (there was almost never anyone at that pool).  To the left of the small bridge is "the island" which is home to most of the pools and one of the restaurants.  You could even take a boat ride around the lagoon although we passed.

There was a fair amount of nature around.  Lots of different kinds of birds in all the trees and turtles and fish in the lagoon.  Here's a small iguana...

and here's a bigger one...

There was also a kitten that seemed to live on the patio of one of the restaurants, and we also ran into a raccoon one night on one of the bridges.  Also we saw something that we decided in the end was a lemur one day while we were out walking.

Here's the beach...

We went to the beach one day.  It was nice enough, but neither of us remembered to bring our reef shoes and under that beautiful surf are intermittent (and pretty much invisible) stretches of fairly sharp rocks.  Were there no alternatives it would have been ok, but there were a bunch of really nice pools, so most of the time we did that instead.

Here's a water level view of the main pool...

We spent most of our pool time off of one of those little niches on the right...

Lounge chairs, sun umbrellas, many, many towels, and cocktail service.  Very nice.  Mrs. TANBI's feet on the left, my goofy toes on the right.

Here's the bottom of Mrs. TANBI's feet...

Actually, the nicest pool was at the spa, but I didn't bring my camera there and pretty much never brought my phone anywhere.  We pretty fairly had the spa pool to ourselves on two afternoons.

The trip had an unfortunate amount of rain in the second half and that really reigned in any plans to go exploring away from the resort, but we managed to have a great time anyway.

Here's my best sunset photo from the trip...

Maybe next time we'll get better weather.