Mazatlan
23.16.00N
106.29.00W
We stayed at Marina Mazatlan on a set of docks that had been abandoned years before. There was water but no power. All that really mattered to us was access to real showers anyway and so it was all good.
The next day we took in a bus down to the market. Busses were cheap and clean and easy. It cost a whole 50 cents to go into town. After a tasty lunch at a nice sidewalk café we walked down to the beach area.
There was lots of life and activity here. It wasn’t crazy busy but between
the sidewalk vendors, the small beach restaurants and the new construction going
on it was obvious that
Speaking of new construction, it’s always
fun to look at what they use for scaffolds and bracing on new buildings around
the world. Check out the picture of
the building under construction and notice that the bracing and scaffold system
is nothing more than some big sticks tied together!! Although you wouldn’t see that in
The next afternoon we left for Isla Isabella.