So after running around again in the heat of the afternoon getting all my errands done, we drove back to the coast last night. It was nice to walk in and open the doors to the ocean and feel that breeze. It's more humid over here but not as hot. You can't beat the ocean breeze though, really nice after the hot winds in Mérida.

I'm really happy with this set up, we are 3+ hours from Mérida and that makes coming over here whenever pretty easy. I can see spending much of the spring and summer at the beach and then on and off in the winter and fall. We'll probably start renting it again in the winter holidays once we get everything worked out.

Right now, we're just so happy that we are separate from the rental pool they run here. I'm well past over it as some of you probably know but now we're getting our freedom and hopefully this will be an amiable divorce.

We already feel more comfortable here as now we are not using their maid service at all, we've changed the locks and can leave out our personal stuff when we leave. It's much more like our place and we had a great time buying cleaning supplies and more towels. We already only used our own linens and usually our own towels when we were here. That's part of my resentment, we never used the stuff or the services that we have been paying for all these years.

Here's a picture taken from our deck that you won't see in the tourist brochures! It's a nurse shark in very shallow water near the beach. If you know the ocean then you know that wherever you are in it, there are sharks nearby. If humans were their food of choice there would be a lot more shark attacks, or they would be more endangered than they are. Most of them are not at all interested in biting a human but the fear is primordial.

This is a pretty harmless type of shark, they are one of the more common types found here. Most divers see them sleeping in caves or overhangs in the coral. Often the dive guides will take people right up to them, I don't think it is a good idea to bug any creature that is bigger than me and has teeth but many do it without injury, that's how calm these guys are. This was a big one, at least 5 feet and in little more than 2 feet of water. There were several snorkelers nearby and we watched him move away when they came towards him. None of them saw him... we refrained from yelling "shark!" Now that would really make us unpopular with the condo management!

All the lights on our bay and hopefully the other bays on the coast are now red or blue-green. It is the season when the big sea turtles come ashore to lay their eggs. White lights will keep them from coming in but they can't see red or blue-green. It's a nice night view to look down the beach and see only dim red lights. Especially tonight when the moon looks full and has a huge red ring around it. I forgot to bring the tripod up but if I remember I may try and get a picture.