Manzanute, San Augustinillo, and Zipolite Beaches

We have been here for over 30 days now and have not made it out to the Puerto Angel beaches, while only an hour away, we have been very busy with closer beaches. So Yesterday we headed out to look at the area.

On the way there, we finally got a picture of the "hotsheet" or "car motel" just on the outskirts of Puerto Escondido. These motels are everywhere, and are for rent by the hour! Many people traveling through Mexico have funny stories of pulling in to these for the night and getting woken up in the middle of the night to leave! The motels are for elicit meetings with someone other than your spouse or girlfriend!

this picture doesn't show the garages with the sliding doors to hide your car...

We made it to Manzanute where the Turtle Museum is, around 12:00 and we were starved, but we couldn't find the restaurants that are in the tour book so we walked around a bit to see the town. The beach was beautiful.....as usual. So we jumped in the VW and headed to the next village of San Agustinillo, which is reported to be the best of the 5-6 on this stretch. WINDY! However, we found a great little cafe and I had a glass of red wine (hard to find a good one here!) and Adrian had orange juice while we shared a sandwich and some home made cookies, which are also hard to find good ones!

Again, we hopped in the good old VW to head to Zipolite which is one of the only nude beaches in Mexico. Mexicans don't typically allow nudity, but some how this beach got a reputation for it and it gained popularity with wealthy foreigners and they keep coming back. We parked and headed in for a look. Great beach, interesting characters, so we stayed. Lots of nudists, not just in the area that we read it is designated for, but the entire length of the beach. (SORRY NO PICTURES:) )

We had a great day drinking beer, we brought along our left over run and coke and had a few and generally lapped up the sun and surf!

6 days left in Paradise. It has been awesome so far and we hope to see a few more things before we leave. Calgary's Winter looms and we plan on squeezing every last drop of sunshine and heat and surf out of this place before we depart! Stay tuned.

Xox
Adrian and Bernetta