After we got my whole passport situation worked out, we finally arrived in Cancun! I instantly felt better walking off the plane and into the warm climate! Denny and Kathy met us at the airport, and I still laugh at the silly jumping waving action Kathy was doing as we got off the plane!!
We exchanged money for some pesos, changed into flip flops and started south for Mahahaul. We made a pitstop for a very cool "stump" table at a local Mexican merchant. He had neat baskets and furniture made from reeds and bamboo, felt very Mexican. Then we stopped to buy our lizard. Kathy and Denny have a tradition of adding a lizard for every visitor that comes. We got a cute one :)
The journey down was fairly uneventful. I could not BELIEVE how dense the foliage was! No way you could ever navigate through! Lots of cute mexican towns along the way with ladies and kids selling pineapple and oranges!
We arrived in Mahahaul and got the tour of the casita. They purchased it as a small concrete shack built out of cinderblocks. With a lot of creativity it they added a floor, living room and beautiful garden! Very much enjoyed coconut water and relaxing listening to the birds. Mahahual is a quiet little port town. When there is no cruise ship it is so quaint and calm....very relaxing, can see why Kathy loves it there!
The next day we headed to the beachfront property about 10 miles away. Kathy had purchased this tree and it had definitely grown! I had to sort of straddle it on the way to the beach to get it in the car! No one even looked twice as we drove with this tree in the car...quite funny :)
The beach house was just AMAZING! Both Kathy and Denny have designed it from the ground up. Completely runs off the grid with a cistern, solar power and back up generator! Words cannot describe how lovely it was :) Their view is absolutely amazing, and really felt quite isolated. We enjoyed working, cleaning up the neverending rubble that ends up on the beach, raking and getting rid of some of the "burnt mangrove" evidence, and watching the workers and their acrobatics!
The workers had burnt more than the allowed amount of the protected mangroves. Kathy and Denny were working through that...but it was truly scary to watch them work. All working in flip flops, some balancing on ladders tied together with rope! Balancing cinder blocks on their heads as they walked up the makeshift ladders...I'm amazed no one got really hurt! The workers just live onsite until the work is done, it really is quite different than here!
Further down the beach you can see what virgin beach looks like....every plastic possible container from the last 30 years there. Also looked for lucky sea beans from Africa!
As Josh and I were exploring the beach we came upon this awesome piece of driftwood...it smelled like a decaying animal and weighed hundreds of pounds but Denny and Josh floated it in the water to get it to their beach.
It was sort of overcast and cold, so I avoided the water that day. We went into town for dinner and they have the cutest boardwalk and little shops/restaurants...I just loved it.
I had such great food the whole trip, every kind of taco imaginable, shrimp, fish, it was divine!
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