It is springtime here in western Mexico and the sun rises at 7:15 a.m. It was warm and beautiful when we woke this morning, so after a hardy bowl of porridge with fresh Canadian maple syrup and local fresh strawberries, Betty, Sue, and Rob were off down the beach in search of coloured tiles. Their plan is to cover a table found in the hotel with these beach clay tiles that wash ashore every day. They have agreed that their theme will be the Mexican Spinytail Iguana, which is native to this area.
These lizards are primarily herbivores. They love the tropical trees and they are very difficult to see. Sue met eleven year old George today while walking over to Kathy's house to listen to a lecture on the Monarch Butterfly. Like humans, iguanas can live to 100 if humans don't destroy their habitat.
Betty, Sue and Rob went to Kathy and Bill's house this afternoon to listen to Donna and Cliff talk about their trip to a mountaintop in Michoacán, Mexico. They witnessed millions of Canadian monarch butterflies fluttering about in their secret mountain haven. Fred Urquhart, a Canadian scientist, has been studying monarchs since the 1950's. I guess the Monarch butterflies were the first snowbirds, trying to escape the harsh Canadian winters.
Watch the "Flight of the Butterflies" at this link to discover their secret hiding place ...
http://myon.biz/37/play.php?movie=2174750
Jack wanted to show all of us his pet iguana which he named, "Poison", who lives on his window.
On their return trip back to the treehouse hotel, Betty, Sue, and Rob, met a Mexican hairless dog better known as a Xolos. Xolos were considered sacred dogs by the Aztecs (and also Toltecs, Maya and some other groups) because they believed the dogs were needed by their masters’ souls to help them safely through the underworld. They have been around in Mexico for more than 3000 years.
Betty, Sue and Rob went to Kathy and Bill's house this afternoon to listen to Donna and Cliff talk about their trip to a mountaintop in Michoacán, Mexico. They witnessed millions of Canadian monarch butterflies fluttering about in their secret mountain haven. Fred Urquhart, a Canadian scientist, has been studying monarchs since the 1950's. I guess the Monarch butterflies were the first snowbirds, trying to escape the harsh Canadian winters.
Watch the "Flight of the Butterflies" at this link to discover their secret hiding place ...
http://myon.biz/37/play.php?movie=2174750
Jack wanted to show all of us his pet iguana which he named, "Poison", who lives on his window.
On their return trip back to the treehouse hotel, Betty, Sue, and Rob, met a Mexican hairless dog better known as a Xolos. Xolos were considered sacred dogs by the Aztecs (and also Toltecs, Maya and some other groups) because they believed the dogs were needed by their masters’ souls to help them safely through the underworld. They have been around in Mexico for more than 3000 years.
A wedding also took place at Karen's seaside restaurant as the 3 old snowbirds passed by, but they were more focused on collecting tiles for their table. The perigean spring tides were happening today, and the sun and moon were closer to the Earth at this time, making their gravitational pulls stronger, thus more tiles on the beach.
The day ended with a delicious Mexican meal consisting of Mexican baked chicken done in a apple olive oil sauce, baked Mexican potatoes flavoured with mantequilla and local harvested rosemary, fresh Sunday Mexican market carrots cooked to perfection, with strawberries and cream purchased from a local farmer called Pedro - Oh, the white wine was a Reserve Chilean Sauvignon Blanc!
There is one more 4 day trip to the Monarch butterfly reserve happening on Feb. 10 and Robert and Sue are contemplating going. There is only one problem ... it is a 10 hour bus ride one way.
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