As I mentioned another entry on the blog, Huatulco is not really a city. It is an enormous park and within the park are three communities. These communities are Santa Cruz, Tangolunda and La Crucecita.
There are about 9 distinctive bays within the Huatulco park. Each one has a distinctive character with a nice clean sandy beach. We road our bikes to look at 2 of the bays yesterday.
Huatulco' location on the North American continent is rather unique.
Because of the way Mexico bends around at the lower quarter , the coast line runs directly east and west, rather than the traditional north and south in Canada and USA. It takes a bit of getting used to when following or giving directions. Also, the sun does not set over middle of the ocean, it rises and sets near the shoreline here.
An interesting point about tourism in this area is that traditionally 80% of the business in this town is generated from within Mexico. Although you would find that figure hard to believe at this time of year when everywhere you look you can find Canadians. There is now a direct Air Transat flight from Vancouver! A couple of our new surfer friends took it on a seat sale for only $500 CND return!
Of the more than a dozen people we have met, not one was American--all Canadian from Oliver, Campbell River, Brooks, Calgary, Regina , Toronto, Quebec and a whole bus load from the Bochello resort that we all Canadian.
Our Mexican guide told us there are basically 2 kinds of tourists here--Mexicans and Canadians.
Yesterday, after a rather warm bike ride, it was the pool for a refreshing dip. Then lunch--same delicious shrimp salad on the beach.
Today it was an ATV trip along the beautiful landscape roadways of Huatulco. Traffic is so light that our tour rider had permits to allow us on any road in the Santa Cruz area!
Eventually she took us to a couple of kilometres of trails within the park. Then we ended up on a totally secluded bay for about 40 minutes. Here we took a swim and truly enjoyed the isolation of the area.
Next we were back on normal roadway driving. The colours and palm trees along the roadway are a treat. Our next stop was a lighthouse at one of the points within the park. Stunning views were on three sides of us. Our final destination was another cove where we parked our ATVs beside a restaurant. Here we had lunch and then she took me snorkelling to a reef area within one of the bays. It was quite magical in the Clearwater viewing the coral and the hundreds of multicoloured tropical fish. At one point I had an old shell in my hand and there were dozens of fish eating from the shell in my hand. She took several pictures of it, but disappointing me they did not turn out.
The upside of this was she offered to take me again tomorrow, to redo the pictures. Typically Mexican--very accommodating!
Here is an interesting shot of OUR HARBOUR BAY. There is actually a a small bay behind the cruise ship pier. It forms a marina with at least 200 boats in it behind the buildings with red roofs. We are located at the end of the marina behind the red roofs in the white building called the Skippers Club.
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