First big surf of the Summer Season

I heard about the big surf south of us and could hear the pounding from my house - so decided to go check out Bigotes restaurant/bar and see if they were loosing any chairs or people. Waves were big and they were underwater a few times but basically it was just a ring side seat to watch the action and the local skim boarders.

First Melaque big surf

Is that snow - Bigotes watering hole under water


Looking up the beach thru the mist from the waves

Skim boarding locals hitting some of the smaller waves

Another one

Melaque - almost Sunset

I went up on El Mirador (the lookout) yesterday around 7pm hoping for a sunset but I forgot the orientation of the bay. You can easily drive up a dirt road to this outlook which is also used by the locals as 'Lovers Lane'. Right in the middle of my sunset was a large mountain and not the expanse of ocean I was expecting. So anyway - the light is good that time of evening so here are a few pictures.

Melaque

Mouth of the bay


Rocks?

Part of the mountain in the way


Back down on the beach on the way home

Skim Board Surfing Contest Melaque - November 2005

Announcement from the CaboSkim Web Site

Skimmex.com and Caboskim.com together are organizating the first Mexican skim contest. The competition will be in Melaque Jalisco, a place located on the pacific side of Mexico about 4 hours away from Puerto Vallarta. This is a Mexican spot with a lot of shore break potential. The exact date of the contest hasn't been confirmed yet, because we are still working on the organization of the event and looking for sponsors, but the contest will be in October 2005

Skim Board Contest Poster

Poster from CaboSkim

Here's the two Web Sites - both with Vidoes of the event and pictures

CaboSkim Web Site

New photo from June 2006

Tianguis Day Melaque

The Tianguis on the Costalegre is a traveling market. It starts every Tuesday in Cihuatlan, Wednesday in Melaque, Thursday in Barra and Friday in La Manzanilla. Today is Wednesday and the Tianguis has moved to my end of town due to the sewer and water construction going on on the other side of town. Great assortment of stuff although the sellers that have plastics and kitchen wares all seem to buy from the same distributor. Still it's fun and you just might find that thing that you really didn't need.


Lots of people - and lots of Gringos durning the winter


They all have the same plastic ware


Herbs and Teas


Colorful stuff


The wiggly heads


Clothes, beauty creams and miracles


Fresas

Villa Obregon Candelaria Fiesta

Feb 2nd - CANDELARIA DAY (Candlemas Day)

All of Mexico celebrates with dances, processions, and for those that can afford , a bullfight. So for some reason the bull ring of Villa Obregon has "Candelaria" and nobody knows why unless each community takes on the responsibility to celebrate a different holiday. Celebration is supposed to be through Monday. Yesterday was the first day and nothing started until the evening ... and as far as I know it was music and dancing. Only 30,000 watts of power rather than the normal 70k ... and the bands were very good. We can hear them well from the house. So today around noon they brought in a truck full of bulls and here they are.

I missed this Fiesta mainly because it started so late and it's hard to take pictures under artificial light. I did much better by going to the La Manzanilla Rodeo the same weekend.

Web page of the La Manzanilla Rodeo

Poster for the big night - Monday


Entrance to the Bull Ring - Clean and ready to go


The stage is set for the band


In comes the load of Bulls


Bulls in the Pen