Riviera Maya, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
February 8th, 2010
View outside my hacienda front door.
Parrots everywhere. Lots of Macaw's, too. A Macaw is gorgeous, but has the disposition of a Bronx bartender with an ingrown toenail.
Morning trek to beach. Warming the huevos and continuing to nurse the tequila teat. Speaking of teats, there were a huge number of Canadians (especially French Quebecites) whose teats had been cruelly kept from the sunlight during the winter and who subsequently let them loose to get sunburned to a bright pink hue. Looked painful, but the darlings seemed relieved to flap freely in the wind and sun.
Downtown Playa del Carmen
Playa del Carmen
Local beach near my room. Water was always warm. Air temp ranged from 22 to 28 C. although the humidity was consistently near 90%
My back porch. Found this gentleman there one morning.
Said hello to Sam the donkey every morning on my way out. Poor bastard never got out of his pen. C'est la vie.
Iguana. They are everywhere like rats. Didn't ask if they tate good.
Took the ferry to Cozumel for a day. Nice reef-encircled island. Very touristy, although I did visit their nature preserve.
Breakfast: "Paloma," Mexican for "pigeon." Squirt and a heaping helping of Tequila.
Iguana Gold on Cozumel. Fearless sucker.
Just acting and looking cool as I bake in the sun.
Ferns and palms. I am from northern US, and they are like candy to me.
Some kind of mini-Mayan ruin on Cozumel.
A replica of a Mayan holy shrine. I am sure I am desecrating it somehow, but I am an ignorant fuck, so I beg forgiveness.
Cozumel coast line.
Main square. Sunday, so not very busy. Everyone was home watching QVC, no doubt.
Entrance barkers were ruthless and endemic. Only stores I'd go into were the ones who let me the fuck alone.
Some kind of Madonna icon floating in a sea of agave leaves. I'm sure there's a serious fetish in that image somewhere.
Mexican tejón, or coati. Scrappy litte bloke. Always digging and curious.
Sea Tortoise. BIG SUCKER.
Mariposa. Butterfly. Lots of 'em everywhere. These loved rotten bananas.
View from a hilltop chapel. The little houses under the trees are gravesites. Very happy cemetery!
Nice view of parking lot. Heh.
Entrance to an underground river. Floated/swam down this one. Fish nibbled at my privates, and there were plenty of bats above.
Stumbled across some women practicing a colorful dance.
Yours truly buzzed and ready for more tequila mischief.
Mayan ruins at Tulum.
The ruins at Tulum are built high on a cliff that abuts the ocean. Amazing site.
Close-up of the main temple. Can you see the face of the sleeping god carved into the corner? Each corner sported one.
One of the lookout buildings at the site. It was used primarily as a trading hub for the Mayans.
Ricardo the coati showed up on my back porch to say Adios, Amigo.