Playa Conchal
It was a beautiful day. In the morning, after breakfast, we walked to
Conchal Beach and tried snorkelling at the point. The tide was out so the rocks were quite exposed. We swam out but could not see anything as the water was very dirty. However it was nice and warm.
Sergeant Majors in the dirty water
Later we saw some others snorkelling close to where we’d been, but now the tide was even lower, so more rocks were exposed, and they were inside in a small channel. I went again and tried in the same place. There were some fish there, mostly Sergeant Majors, but they were quite hard to see in the dirty water. Enid tried snorkelling as well, so we both did see some fish. As walked back to our hotel for lunch we saw a lot of brown pelicans and a number of people fishing.
After lunch we walked back to the beach, but just took our goggles to swim. It was now very hot and there wasn’t much shade. We found the best site we could at the north end of the beach, one tree, and sat partly in the shade of its trunk. Later Enid walked a few minutes farther down the beach, more or less right in front of the Westin Inn, and there were some nice shade trees there. We moved to this area and spent the rest of the afternoon reading on the beach, and going for the occasional swim to cool off.
Our waitresses the last few meals have spoken no English so its been interesting trying to communicate in our limited Spanish. Tonight however we had a young man who was practicing his English, and so we were able to speak to him and get some tutoring in how to order in Spanish.