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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

The light colored flat slab is what the front tire was wedged against.
REVISITING THE SCENE!


As you may remember, last November I drove the Suzuki down here mostly following Bob in the RV. For 6 days I drove with no problems enjoying the peace and quiet. The very next day after arriving at the beach, I was driving into town when I encountered difficulties. The road along the river to the water store had been partly washed out during the hurricane but had been filled in so it was passable. My memory is that as soon as the car left the pavement, my front tires were in soft sand and kept sliding toward the river no matter what I tried and it would not go backwards (front wheel drive, you know). And thus my right front tire became truly wedged down in a ditch. I was upset at the time that I had not brought my camera. So I finally this week took some pictures of the road.


This last Sunday a neighboring beach called CoCo's held a horseshoe tournament. Most people drove over, but a few of us boated over. It was a perfect sunny, warm, and windless day.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

TOMATOES AND CRAFTS



When we first arrived at the beach the Middle of November, our neighbors, Larry and Wendy, were nurturing a volunteer tomato plant which is only 5 feet from the high tide line. When Larry and Wendy pulled up stakes and headed home to Arizona just before Christmas, they passed the care of said tomato plant to me. I have done what I could and that plant has hung in there~~it refuses to die! It even has 7 tomatoes!! In spite of dogs peeing on it, the tomatoes are ripening. I picked one this week that was ripe; it had good flavor but the skin was really tough.


This last week we made baskets/pouches out of kelp fom the Oregon coast. A very interesting process~~I show photos of some of the results. I'm not going to show mine until it's dried and I have attached embellishments.




Our class in the large open palapa.

Saturday, February 9, 2013

BEACH PARTY!!!


But first....

a sunrise....












and a sunset.












One of our Coyote "Beachheads" is a Canadian named Pedro. He just turned 60 and threw one heck of a party. As with most of our "doings" here on the beach, it was a potluck!









Pedro loves to be at the center of attention and he does it very well!!


He often wears different colored socks and for this occasion he also had on two different shoes.

Pedro had all the February birthdays come up to get a shot of tequila which is why Bob was up there.

Saturday, February 2, 2013

ANOTHER ROUGH DAY TRIP




On January 25, about 6 carloads from the beach drove south past the end of the Bay of Conception. There we accessed 10 miles of very rough rocky road that took us to a beach directly on the Sea of Cortez. It was very lovely there but too windy for Bob and I to want to set up the kayak; so he sat in the sun and looked for shells. We agreed that we don't enjoy 4-wheeling on rocky roads enough to go on any more like day trips!!!!!


This past fall one of our 'beachcombers' died and his wife sent down some of his ashes. Near one of our gorgeous sunsets a small ceremony was performed: while his ashes were sprinkled in the water and wine poured in after them, a 3-paddle salute was formed while we all wished Marty a speedy trip!!

I show you now the finished baskets we made from gourds with seagrass weaving on the top of it. Deb's looks more like a shoe, but it is a basket!!!
Deb's shoe basket (but is now doing duty as a bird feeder).
Nan
 Lynn and I