Acapulco, México
Anna´s entryLoved the nature and the coast, hated the pollution and constant offers to buy something. I must admit that after 4 days of being pounded by offers, I lost it, and a taxi driver and I exchanged a couple of unlady-like statements….
Rob and I found a great snorkeling beach, used only by locals (no sale stands or time share booths), and we had a great time there. The landscape under the water was spectacular, it felt like we were swimming among mountains, sometimes polished by the waves, and sometimes dropping their slopes meters and meters below us. Even though the beach was located right in the city, fish and eels were abundant there- it was wonderful to swim with numerous schools of them. The sad part was that locals would be careless about the surrounds, and right at the shore there were many plastic bottles and cups swimming around. I don’t know if locals noticed that we picked up some trash in the water and followed our example, but the next day, we observed several people cleaning the beach. By the way, basura (trash) seems to be an eyesore for the major part of Mexico. It is unfortunate to see so many people so careless about their environment. A few humorous observations from the previous three weeks of travel:
1. If you are not sure where there centro (downtown) is, just ask for Hildago Street.
2. If you learnt how to ask a question in Spanish, make sure to learn how to understand the answer, otherwise don’t ask.
3. If you’re trying to cross a 6-lane traffic street, just grab on to a local and run for your life (there are no pedestrian traffic lights).
4. If you want to by local grown apples, do not buy the expensive ones- they almost always come from Washington State.
5. If you wake up hearing the Hotel California song in Spanish in techno-ranchero interpretation, you must be on an overnight bus.
Acapulco, near the cliff-diving location
Good snorkeling area behind Anna
Rough water near snorkeling area.
posted by Rob and Anna @ 2:04 PM
5 Comments:
Hi Rob and Anna!
Read your Blog...Keep us posted...Sounds fun.
Joanie, me and the kids just got back from Florida where we went to se my dad for Thanksgiving.
Bill
Hey you guys! Photos and updates are awesome. Love the ones of you swimming to the islands! Talk to you later.
You crazy Russian! It looks like your having a fabulous time! I'll keep looking and take care.
Jill
Rob, this is Chris from work. I highly recommend you spend some time practicing with your camera. Not to criticize, but you're photos are very blurry. You are using too long of a shutter speed or you are shaking your hand too much. Make sure image stabilization is on "shoot only" if you got a camera that has it. If all your photos look like this when you get back, you are going to be very dissappointed.
Anyway, have fun and get back to work soon!
Oh yea. The best thing you can do is review your photos when you take them. Use a digital zoom to check out an edge somewhere. If it is blurry, delete it and take another on the spot.
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