Palm trees on Carrillo Beach
Another day, another beautiful beach, and another very warm and wonderful day. After breakfast at the German Bakery, where we also bought a large pumpernickel bun for lunch, some cinnamon buns for an afternoon snack, and cheese and cookies, we took a taxi out to Carrillo Beach, about 5 km from our hotel.
It is a very different beach than the one in Samara, quiet, and without all the restaurants, surf schools, and beach chair rentals. Just a very gently sloping sandy beach backed by stands of coconut palms. We found a bench in the shade of the palms, and waded out through the surf to swim about once per hour. Beyond the surf which stirred up a great deal of sand was gentle swells and good swimming.
Enid on the beach
I saw a sea turtle in the ocean when I first went in swimming this morning. We thought that there might be decent snorkelling at a rocky point and lagoon, so I walked over there after lunch. However it was quite shallow and still pretty stirred up, so we decided against snorkelling.
Later in the afternoon it clouded over and looked as if we would get a major rain storm, but it didn’t rain. We’d told our taxi driver (who spoke no English) this morning that we wanted to get picked up at 3 o’clock. He told the hotel owner who had phoned him for us that he couldn’t be there but that he would send a friend. We weren’t certain when 3 pm came with no sign of a red taxi, but eventually a small green car stoppped, said our name, and so we got the ride back with a friend — but not an official taxi.
We were planning to go to a different restaurant for supper, but as we walked down the road toward “El Manglar” it didn’t look open to us. A Spanish speaking man asked us where we were going, and he said “Si” the restaurant was open. But when we got there he was surprised to see that it wasn’t. We tried the French Restaurant “Ma Ma Gui” but weren’t thrilled with the look of the menu so we went back to Sol y Mar where we ate last night, and once again had a nice meal — though we skipped dessert this time.