Zihuatanejo: Hard to Say~ Easy to Love

When we first arrived in Zihua we thought we'd stay a couple of days and push on to Acapulco for Christmas. The more we read about Acapulco in December, the less likely we felt that we would enjoy ourselves there. On the other hand, it was easy to anchor and go ashore in Zihua. Alice was able to attend church services on Christmas Sunday. We made one BIG provisioning trip to Mega Commercial, a huge supermarket/ variety store not unlike a Super Walmart, but affiliated with Costco! We walked the old downtown streets over and over and had a couple of delightful lunches at beach cafes. Bill's brother Barry warned us that the food would change the farther south we go, and we have experienced that already. What we think we're ordering from the menu and what is served has been two different things... We met nice people on two different sailboats and shared our HOMEMADE vanilla ice cream (Bill did that) and brownies (Alice did those) with Chris and Tamara from Camarillo one day and on Christmas Day with the McConnells- mom, dad and two children who just returned from Ecuador- we picked their brains. The days went by and we actually pulled out on our eleventh day there! Above photos: Grey Wolf all by herself at Caleta de Campos, just prior to Zihua, and the lovely buildings that line the east shore of the harbor in Zihua.