Fish Market and Beach

Wednesday, February 25th, 2015 Puerto Lopez
This morning after breakfast we sunscreened and walked along the beach into town. Hundreds of big birds hover over the fish market area.

Lots of people here make their truck racks out of hardwood of some kind. The other night, we saw a whole dune buggy body fashioned out of wood.

Although it was late morning and winding down, the fish market was still busy.

To the north, on the way back past our hotel, there is 2 or 3 km of empty  beach. We walked that again this afternoon.

In front of our hotel is the skeleton of a humpback whale. Apparently this 30 year old whale washed ashore south of here. Biologists discovered that it had died of cancer. The hotel owner here cleaned up the carcass, buried the bones for 4 years and then mounted the skeleton outside our hotel. The owners here are very conscious of the value of whale watching and are determined to do their part to save the whales from extinction. Whale watching season here is from June to September so we'll miss it on this trip.
This afternoon we had to swim a few times on our walk to cool off. It's sunny and hot and the water is perfectly warm. Tomorrow, we're off to San Jacinto.