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| Playa La Boquita in Bahia Santiago |
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| Mucho umbrellas! |
OMG! This is a festive place! Just around the corner from our "remote" anchorage is this lively beach scene of Santiago. We anchor in a large shallow half moon shaped bay that is literally covered in colorful umbrellas fronting the many "ramadas" or open air restaurants as they are called here. It must be holiday week as the beach is teaming with people swimming, vendors peddling and music blaring! But in a good and festive way...not the annoying blare of the Cabo San Lucas scene.
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| Capt. Juan enjoys the beach scene! |
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| Beach toys, anyone? |
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| I bought a new dress from this beach vendor. |
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We enjoyed margaritas and shrimp at this very colorful ramada. I think we were the only "gringos" in this place !
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We enjoy the scene by dropping into a crowded ramada for cold margaritas and watch the day go by.
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We'll have the usual...rocks or blended? was a struggle for our non-english speaking waitress!
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We watch the food go out as fast as the family can prepare it...also was interesting to have the waiter bring out the uncooked fish to present to the patron for inspection before cooking...only in the finest restaurants have I seen this before!
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| Fish presented to diner before cooking on open grill. |
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| Oooh, smelled so good! |
Food vendors preparing delicious offerings...
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Fruit platter: jicama, cucumber,watermelon, mango on stick
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Buried treasure?
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The people are all so friendly...I spy a young girl getting her hair braided. And she wanted me to take her picture...
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| Sweet! |
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| The beach scene! |
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| A family enjoying the day! |
The only hard part about this day was the dingy ride back out to the boat, timing the waves so as not to break on us and then hoisting the dingy back up on boat at night for safety, successfully accomplishing these tasks while under the influence of margaritas! What a hoot!
Next day...
I went to the Saturday flea market in Santiago with friends, Deborah and Danny on s/v Cyclades.
While they bought new silver jewelry for Deborah, I bought a new supply of vegetables, had awesome fish tacos and enjoyed the culture...oh, and we bought fireworks for New Year's Eve...rockets!
Off today to sail over to Las Hadas resort for the New Year...
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