Damn it is Wednesday, the dreaded day!!!
The winds are still high but at least there is some
sunshine for us to enjoy before the dreaded
hour of 1 o'clock, when Abey De Sol Travel
comes to pick us up for the airport.
Our last morning on the beach of Puerto Morelos
for this year is interesting. Never have we seen
the beach with such high water marks and
so much debris from the sea.
A scum of salt covers much of the washed up ocean weeds
Here is the rain coming in. Temperatures dropped
very quickly just before the rain reached us. We were very fortunate it didn't last long because we were a ways
from the shelter of our Casa.
Boats are anchored both fore and aft to
keep them secure during high waves
This picture shows the river like indentations made in the sand as the water from the high waves finds its way back to the sea.
These are the treasures from today's beach combing. The seed on the bottom left is a sea heart from the "monkey ladder" seed pods found in the tropical rain forest of Costa Rica
This is an accident waiting for a time to happen!! When we came in off the beach our feet were covered in sand. The usual practice has been to walk to our Casa and hose off there, this time we saw the tap and one of us said "Oh, there is a tap. I wonder if it is hooked up to the water?" Sooo, we walked over toward the tap thinking we would rinse off our feet and put our shoes on. Keep in mind it had just rained and the ground was wet. Allan was the closest to the lamp post, when he was about 2 feet from it he got an electric shock! It was a shock similar to that one gets from an electric fence.
At the time there was no one around to report to, however
we did tell some other people that were coming in off the beach to stay back from the lamp post.
Allan went back later and found a workman who
he was able to explain the incident too. Hopefully the
necessary repairs have been done and no one gets injured.
One last walk about town before brunch.
Things are much the same as they have been
during the last few days of bad weather
Since the men are not able to get out on the water due to high winds some are catching up on their "Honey Do Lists". This man is washing windows! I wonder what tactic his honey uses?
Here are children playing in the school
yard of the town's elementary school
This picture shows how the sand has blown up
from the beach on to the streets. We think
shovelling snow is a pain, at least if you leave it
long enough it will melt. Mexico does have
hot weather but not hot enough to melt the sand.
Good old elbow grease and Mexican
determination is the only thing that will get rid of it.
CHILITOS AGAIN!!! We love their breakfast/brunch!
This is always our final eating place in Puerto Morelos
before we leave to head back to Canada.
The manager of Chilitos is fluent in both the Spanish and English languages. He and his family are very friendly, competent people. Their restaurant is noticeably
clean, the food is delicious, the service is
excellent and the prices are reasonable.
This picture is of the fruits of the Palm tree
growing in the garden at Casa De Los Viajeros.
Once at the airport, Edith looks happy to be heading home - she certainly is because she wants to get her souvenirs unpacked
and placed in her house.
Bob is just happy to be at the airport on time.
Allan - well I'm not so sure.
These places sure do take full advantage
of their captive audience.
Bubba Gump beer is about $10.00 Cdn for a 16 ounce glass and Johny Rockets is getting $13.00 Cdn for a hamburger and fries. One has to feel sorry for travelling families!
We are headed to gate "A-1" for a 3:50 p.m. departure to arrive in Toronto at 8:44 p.m.- this was the information on our tickets. As you can see in the above photo the departure time on the flight information board is set at 16:33 or 4:33,
a delay of 43 minutes.
Now I didn't want to leave Mexico, (the little town of Puerto Morelos kind'a grows on you), but I didn't want to spend extra time at the airport either.
As those of you caught in the same type of situation
know, we have no other choice at this point.
You make the best of a bad situation - I had a good book.
Bob happened to go for a walk and came back with information that we were to be a loading gate "B13"! Departure time still set for 4:33. It is a good thing he's observant because we had gathered with other passengers on the same flight at gate
"A1" as we had been instructed on our ticket information!
We all scurried off to Gate "B13", wait a few minutes and the departure time changes to 4:43 - a further delay of 10 minutes making it a total of 53 minutes.
The departure time changes a couple more times
and at last it shows departure time 17:03 or
3 minutes after 5 - now we delayed an additional
20 minutes - total 73 minutes (1 hour and 13 minutes)
Then all of a sudden the screen showes this shot -
awe, what does this mean????
It was a good sign, we were bussed to the aircraft and took off for Toronto at 3 minutes after 5 as indicated on the last information we saw on the screen regarding the flight.
This is a shot of the moon coming up over the Yucatan,
the glare in the bottom right is a reflection from the
setting sun on the other side of the plane.
We arrived at the Toronto airport at 10:00 in the evening following a good flight. By the time we retrieved our luggage, caught the shuttle to our hotel, got the car and settled into our room it was past 11:00 p.m. This is what was left of the pizza we ordered after that. One would think we should have had nightmares after eating that amount of pizza. We didn't though, we slept contentedly, like exhausted kittens with full tummies.
