Cruise ships are in the bay an average of 1-2 times a week, but the week were there, there was one three days in a row. They really ruined the scenery.
Everyone seemed to think Ixtapa would have been a better choice for them to go, but there isn’t a long pier there.
This is the day we walked over the hill to the next beach to the south, La Ropa (Clothes Beach). It supposedly got it’s name from when there was a shipwreck centuries ago, and clothes were strewn all over the sand.
One day we went back to the island, and one day we went out to Las Gatas, a gorgeous gem of a beach in Zihua bay. You have to take a water taxi to get here from the main pier...you CAN walk on some rocks from La Ropa, but it’s treacherous in places, and I wasn’t about to twist my ankle. It’s 35 pesos and worth every penny!
Again, lined with beach restaurants and even mariachis....
Quite good snorkeling here, there is a man made reef of boulders and the water is super calm (legend has it an Aztec king made the reef so his daughter could bathe here).....this was relaxing, 28 degree C water...
We had gotten friendly with some great Oregon folks at the hotel so made the trip with them, here is Sheryl and Mark clowning around....
In the evenings, we would watch the sunset at some happy hour somewhere, or the hotel.....
And then get ready and go walk somewhere for supper...either along the boardwalk
to head downtown (by downtown I mean ten minute walk along the beaches to Fisherman’s Walk and up to 5 streets back- there is a TON of restaurants and shops in Z) to a ‘raunt (best ones downtown were Pizza Navona, la Sirena Gorda, the Fat Mermaid, where they had great fish and shrimp tacos .....Mi Chayito that was Mexican and Chinese food (great ginger beef and curry skewers)....Tamales y Atoles Any, wonderful Mexican food, pozole on weekends, assorted tacos al pastor and the like at many tacquerias and food carts.....Porto di Mare....Don Memos....Daniels....Arcadia on the beach.....oh man, etc etc.
Or we would go somewhere in the area closer to our hotel, down Calle Adelita, a very quiet cobblestoned street that ran all the way to Fisherman’s Walk- for supper, La Casa Vieja (wonderful food), lunch favourite was MJ Ritchies on Playa Madera, and the Casa Café (great coffee) or Salvadors (10 peso beers here all day!) or Brisas del Mar for breakfast. Great food everywhere.
