Any place that boasts sunny weather, surf, a sandy beach with palapa restaurants, a small downtown street lined with unique shops and restaurants has to have a charm all its own. Spice it up with an attractive twenty-something woman, clothed with only an acoustic guitar singing folk songs on the beach to a small crowd of enthusiastic guys and women; you have Zipolite!
Time to continue north if we hope to make it home by April 11--the last day for our medical plan!!
Before Puerto Escondido we stopped at Ventanilla https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ventanilla,_Oaxaca
for a swamp jungle tour. It was a delight. Behind the ocean sandbar was a decent size lake and swampy area with a dry land island in the middle. The tour guide took us out in the lake in a large row boat he paddled. The area was quiet beyond belief with jungle vegetation and mangrove trees lining much of the island.
We saw a number of crocodiles en route and eventually docked on the shores of the island. Large and small crocs, monkies, deer, iguana, and many birds made the island home along with some "captives" used in the breeding programs. Termites nests the size of stacked old tires were also common. They helped clean up dead wood in the forests.
Mexico has come a long way in now valuing its natural beauty with parks that highlight the counties natural beauty. They realize how people from around the world will come and spend money to enjoy these wonders. Many people will come to this park tomorrow to supervise and assist baby leatherback turtles on their treacherous walk across the expansive sandy beach in their way to the ocean. This program prevents the predators in the area from having an easy "snack", and has helped take this spicies from the the verge of extinction
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