Title: The Beach, Zihuatanejo Location: Zihuatanejo, Mexico Settings: ISO 100 Focal Length 200mm (320mm Equiv) Shutter Speed 1/200 Aperture f/6.3 Exp Comp -1/3 Camera Canon ESO Rebel X1i Lens Sigma 18-200mm Just another day on the beach in Zihua. Nothing special done to the image. Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey Share
I’m typing this post on the plane from LA to Seattle. Sabrina and I have successfully navigated the US Immigration and Customs system and are about 1.5 hours from touching down in Seattle. We won’t be home on the island until tomorrow, but we’ll be home enough, staying at my parents’ house because of the [...]
It’s Thursday! Our last full day in this great town. Maybe it’s more like a city as we were informed about 100,000 people live here. It sure doesn’t seem that big. I woke up extra, super early (8:15am) to go scuba diving. I’m new to scuba, having just completed my training dives back in January. [...]
I woke up this morning, Wednesday the 24th, to realize I really was sunburnt. You know how it never seems that bad the first day you’re burnt but then you look in the mirror the day after and the red is soooooo much redder? That was me. It wasn’t hurting too bad and was blatantly [...]
It’s Tuesday and you know what that means??? Neither did I when I got up. Ahhhh….vacation. But Sabrina and I were up uncharacteristically at 9:15am. The clouds were clearing and we could see the deep blue of the open water beyond the bay again. The bay itself in Zihuatanejo is a cloudy brown from all [...]
It’s Monday here in the sunny town of…..what? Hay!! Where’d the sun go and what’s with this blanket of clouds. And the temps have dropped about 15 degrees. It’s almost like I’m back in Seattle. Normally we have big poofy clouds or low gray ones that drop some rain and then go, but these clouds [...]
I was thinking it’d be a nice night to blog with the patio door open. The waves are big, the cicadas and other night sounds have a wonderful tropical feel and for now the rains have stopped (Tropical Storm Andres coming this way, kinda). But then “Giant Moth Creature” flew into our condo. Bugs don’t [...]
Today was a real late day. Sabrina and I were about ready to go around noon or so. The plan was to taxi down to the Mercado and do some souvenir shopping then head to the beach to pick up some fish for dinner. But on the way to the Mercado Sabrina nearly melted. It [...]
Today was a settling in day. The Cronins are here for ten days and Sabrina and I are here for seven. As we both have condos with complete kitchens, today’s big plan was to grab some groceries. On suggestion from a cranky lady in line for Immigration yesterday, we headed to Patty’s right on the [...]
Mexico is hot! Well, at least the area we landed in. Today was the first official day of our vacation even though we left the island yesterday. Overnighting in the hotel in Seattle was indeed a great idea, even though the wake up call was at 4am to catch a shuttle. The airport was uneventful [...]
