Acapulco

We've just left Acapulco and are now headed down to Puerto Escondido after having spent 4 nights at anchor in the bay - surrounded by the millions of lights from the city.

The beach stretches along for miles, but to get to the beach you have to go through one of the hotels, or (obviously the more favourable option when you're living on a beautiful yacht...) a beach bar!

Hello Club Tropicana!

The old town is centered around a place called the Zocalo, which is really pretty. Very 'local' Mexico - which makes me wonder why I thought it was ok to buy strawberries on the side of the road, from a woman who looked like she hadn't washed in about 3 weeks and had red dribble all around her mouth - a blatant sign that she's been at her own produce, no?! But so far so good....

Have I just jinxed it?!

There are 5000 (yes thats 3 0's!) VW beetle taxi's in this city! Taxi's! Sooo quaint. We actually counted 8 in a row go past.

One of the most famous things to see here are La Quebrada. These crazy Mexican cliff divers who dive over 120ft into a tiny 12ft wide, 8ft deep, crevease. They have to time their dive with the surge that comes in - oh and avoid the rocks that litter the place! Besides the fact that the waves are crashing all over.

And yet they still don't just do a boring dive.

They do somersaults, twists, there's even a tandem dive!

If you squint really hard at the photo, you'll see some dude standing on the top of the far cliff in his little speedo's.

This is after he climbs from the water up the cliff face! Seriously - crazy antics!

Zihuatenejo...

Now we are in Zihuatenejo, about 14 hours cruising down the coast from costa Careyes.

This was the beach from the final scene in Shawshank Redemption! (Looks a fair bit different now though, quite a few hotels and bars and the like)

Went for a kayak over to the beach and a swim around the boat.....and then a short while later there was a large crocodile sighting not 60ft from the boat!! Apparently there is a river full of them just on the otherside of the bay, they have a fence across the entrance, but, of course, being Mexico, having a couple escape to go greet the swimmers on the beach every now and then is not a big deal...

A couple of the guys went fishing and caught a couple of decent sized beauties, shame they turned out not to be edible. So now we have one, half-filleted, strung up on a line behind the boat for the croc! (and of course the security cameras are all on 'croc-watch'...)

Careyes...

We cruised down the coast to Costa Careyes, this quirky beach community founded in the 60's by some Italian guy.

It's full of exclusive villas and celebrities.

Apparently Eva Longoria just bought her husbund a bar here!

It's like the central american version of St Tropez, but way more down to earth, so no 'it-bars', expeno boutiques etc - there's not even a town, it's all centred around this (apparently) amazing Italain restauarant called Playa Rosa (?!).

All these gorgeous villas perched on top of the cliffs with their own little private staircases down to the beach.

Beautiful....

Bullfight!

Just a quick snap from the bullfight we went to see here in Puerto Vallarta. I thought one bull was bad enough, but there were FOUR fights!

Thought that this could possibly be the gayest matador outfight that ever was...?! Or maybe it would be fine without the hot pink socks?

Some of the matadors put on such a show, prancing around the ring and acting for the crowd. At one point one of them was gored by the bull - for a refreshing change! - and went down. He had to be helped up and then started this big charade: he's hurt - oh no wait he's limping - he looks angry - "where's the bull?!" he roars....

Hello Hello!

Well hello!

Welcome to my New Years resolution....

I'm sure by now that my slackness at keeping in touch is blatantly apparent. Apologies.

Since I make a resolution every year to make more of an effort, decided on something different this year - a blog!

So I have no idea how this thing works. Things could be a wee sketchy to start with, but I do intend to stick a load of pics on here and regale you all - or maybe just myself - with humorous tales from my travels.

Perhaps keep you updated on my personal goals - currently to eat my body weight in guacamole....mmmmm! (although this attempt was sidetracked last night when we ate out at a mexican restaurant, in Mexico, that wouldn't serve me guacamole! No words.)

For once, you might even know where I am each day!

So here we go....