MyShadowProductions #89 - Puerto Vallarta 19 Feb 2022

Hola!!

Maybe it’s just me but it seems like there is a sunset every day :) This one happened last night:

Took a day trip today to Yelapa, a village only accessible by boat (Internet says there is one very rough path for quads and four wheeled trucks?) 16 miles south down the coast from Puerto Vallarta. Took a Water Taxi (+/- 30 passenger boat) from Los Muertos Pier in Puerto Vallarta. The cost was $400 round trip. Before you say What? Is he crazy? That’s 400 pesos or about $20 US dollars, $10 each way for an exciting and scenic 45 minute boat ride in the Bahia de Banderas (Banderas Bay). By the way, I haven’t seen Antonio anywhere.

                           Bought ticket here

Luckily we missed the canon fire from the Pirate Ship!!

Along the way we passed Boca de Tomatlán where I started the hike last Tuesday and the beaches like, Playa Colomitos, Playa Los Animas and Playa Quimixto and several others in between.

Yelapa, to me, was a little strange/unique/hard to explain vibe. Ownership of land is limited to indigenous people and that definitely influences the “development” and “layout” of the village. The hills/mountains and jungle and rocks and waterfall have influences too! I read on the Internet that Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper rented a house there in the 1960’s, that probably explains it all :)

The water taxi arrived at the pier about 11 am and would leave at 4 pm for the return trip, leaving 5 hours to explore. (Did you check my math? Lol)

I am going to let the photos speak for themselves, here are a few movie/videos created from my photos:

The shrimp tacos were really good with the guacamole and chipotle salsas :)

The art on the curvy wall appeared to be painted by school children? Maybe just recently or the paint and supplies have been left there for affect?

This workbook shows some of the planning:

In hindsight I should have found and taken a photo of that scene on the wall, duh! I did get the horse’s ass part in this photo??

More to come mañana !!