Hola Amigos,
We had an interesting week here. We picked up Ben's brother John on Tuesday, and entertained him a bit (it's an easy job ... he knows where the beach is.) He took a walk and a swim every day, in spite of there being several very windy days. Then he did some kayaking and snorkeling, and said it was the best he's ever seen. There were all kinds of fishes out there. He managed to keep himself busy even when Ben was sick in bed for a day and a half! He's heading back home today (after one more walk on the beach!)
One of the more exciting things (to Ben and I) that happened this week is that our Bottle Brush tree finally bloomed. I raised it from seed about 5 or 6 years ago, and when the trees of our friends bloomed over the years (from sticks we'd given them), ours just kept getting taller. It took forever for it to put out a branch! This year we could see three flower buds developing, and we were SO excited! The buds get to about 4" long before they pop out the flowers (which last one day).
I went out to check them one night after we'd come home from visiting with friends, and this is what I saw!
Hooray!!! They were like fireworks bursting in the night! Now the silly thing needs to put out some more branches so we get more flowers. We're still waiting for the last bud to blossom.
We were invited to a birthday party at some friend's home out at Lighthouse Estates on Saturday, and enjoyed visiting with other friends there. They have a nice little putting green (yes, the grass is artificial, but very real feeling),
And a pool.
Yesterday, we took a drive up the Buenos Aires arroyo north of town, where there is a little waterfall at the end. Ben got out "Old Blue", our best rig for driving in sandy conditions. It made it just fine, and in the photo below, Ben had pulled in and turned it around so it was facing back out. We stopped where the water flowed into the sand.
It was a short hike around the corner to the waterfall and a nice little pool, which was refreshingly cool!
Hotel Palmas de Cortez has set up some Zip lines there, so John had to climb one tower and check it out.
We made it out of there just in time, as a group of about 8 guys on ATV's came roaring up the arroyo in a cloud of dust and noise as we were leaving! It is a popular destination for ATV's...we saw lots of tracks.
One last "surprise" photo. The dogs like to lay on the rug at our open kitchen door and watch the world go by. I noticed they were bothering something on the door frame the other day, so went to check if it was a scorpion or a bee, or other bug they shouldn't be messing with. Well... it wasn't anything alive. It appears that a gecko was in a bad place at a bad time.
Oops. Looks like he'd been there a while. We scraped him off before the dogs did!
More photos of our adventures this week are located in our April 2013 Picasa album.
Hasta la proxima semana!
Tus amigos de Baja,
Harriet, Ben, Ryan, Sam and Zoey
We had an interesting week here. We picked up Ben's brother John on Tuesday, and entertained him a bit (it's an easy job ... he knows where the beach is.) He took a walk and a swim every day, in spite of there being several very windy days. Then he did some kayaking and snorkeling, and said it was the best he's ever seen. There were all kinds of fishes out there. He managed to keep himself busy even when Ben was sick in bed for a day and a half! He's heading back home today (after one more walk on the beach!)
One of the more exciting things (to Ben and I) that happened this week is that our Bottle Brush tree finally bloomed. I raised it from seed about 5 or 6 years ago, and when the trees of our friends bloomed over the years (from sticks we'd given them), ours just kept getting taller. It took forever for it to put out a branch! This year we could see three flower buds developing, and we were SO excited! The buds get to about 4" long before they pop out the flowers (which last one day).
I went out to check them one night after we'd come home from visiting with friends, and this is what I saw!
We were invited to a birthday party at some friend's home out at Lighthouse Estates on Saturday, and enjoyed visiting with other friends there. They have a nice little putting green (yes, the grass is artificial, but very real feeling),
Yesterday, we took a drive up the Buenos Aires arroyo north of town, where there is a little waterfall at the end. Ben got out "Old Blue", our best rig for driving in sandy conditions. It made it just fine, and in the photo below, Ben had pulled in and turned it around so it was facing back out. We stopped where the water flowed into the sand.
Hotel Palmas de Cortez has set up some Zip lines there, so John had to climb one tower and check it out.
One last "surprise" photo. The dogs like to lay on the rug at our open kitchen door and watch the world go by. I noticed they were bothering something on the door frame the other day, so went to check if it was a scorpion or a bee, or other bug they shouldn't be messing with. Well... it wasn't anything alive. It appears that a gecko was in a bad place at a bad time.
More photos of our adventures this week are located in our April 2013 Picasa album.
Hasta la proxima semana!
Tus amigos de Baja,
Harriet, Ben, Ryan, Sam and Zoey
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