Playa El Tecolote - MyShadowProductions # 117

Buenos Dias!! Monday, November 28’s Afternoon adventure.

I found the “Playa Bus” at the La Paz Terminal Turistica. It wasn’t a “Hop on/Hop off” kind of bus that I imagined but it worked fine. The Playa Bus left at 2:00 pm and I could return at 4:50 or 6:50pm, I chose the 6:50 so I could see the sunset at 5:30 and be there when it was dark enough to see the Stars twinkle.

By the way, I chose the farthest beach, Playa El Tecolote, about a 30 minute ride.

Click Here for my movie/video of the bus ride and the beach and the sunset.

El Tecolote is a pretty cool beach with a lot of different things going on. Swimming, walking, fishing, camping, eating, boating, drinking, snorkeling, kayaks, shelling, ATV’ing, blogging (me :), little live Mexican (imagine that :) band, and many, many seagulls (should be PELICANS, see comment below) feasting on the thousands of little fish. The seagulls (should be PELICANS, see comment below) were diving and eating the whole time but right before sunset there seems to be an “eating frenzy” then just like that they fly away to wait for tomorrow:)

I found some cool sea shells and little sea pebbles and saw many, many more. That is when I decided I couldn’t/shouldn’t pick all of them so I took some photos for evidence (and a bird photo).

Some are from San José del Cabo too

The fish tacos were very, very fresh and tasty, best meal yet !! 

I know I mentioned in my previous post about having stingray tacos for dinner but I had them the next day (Tuesday) for Bruncho:)

  Stingray on the left, texture like shredded dark chicken, tasted “fishy chicken?”

Back to Playa El Tecolote:

CLICK HERE for “Just the Waves and Seagulls and a Lucky Dog”:

Click Me for the “Feeding Frenzy” - Pardon the quality, I took the video with 3x Zoom while I was eating, very lazy I know but …….. :)

Click This for “Just the Waves and Sunset”

That’s it for Monday, tomorrow I have a little time left in La Paz and then I am taking Aguila Bus back west across the Baja desert to Todos Santos for a couple of nights.

Adios for now !!

La Paz, Mexico - MyShadowProductions # 116

Buenos Dias Amigos !!

Sunday was a travel day by Aguila Bus from San José del Cabo to La Paz, the capital of the State of Baja California Sur. It was a comfortable 4 hour ride, looping south a little down through Cabo San Lucas and then following the Pacific Coast up to Pescadero and then Todos Santos and then heading East across the Desert to La Paz and the Sea of Cortez again.

San José del Cabo seemed to be about 50/50 between American and Mexican tourists and La Paz seems to be many more Mexican tourists than American.

Click Here for my movie/video created from my afternoon and evening photos along and near the La Paz Malecòn. Yes, they have sunsets here too!

Here are a few photos from an early walk today (Monday):

Also, a late breakfast, early lunch - maybe they call that BRUNCHO ? :)

Prices are in pesos :)

Marlin Burrito c/q (con queso=with cheese), very good, kind of like a mix of tuna and ham :)

I am thinking maybe Stingray Tacos for dinner?

I am going to try and find the bus that goes back and forth from the Malecòn to several different beaches on the peninsula. We will see how that goes and hopefully a few/many photos:)

Buen Dia !!

Beach Hike San José del Cabo Mexico - MyShadowProductions # 115

Buenos Dias a todos!

Friday morning I really did not have a plan.

I started with coffee and took a few photos in Centro and then walked to the Playa (beach) again. Starting again at the “sandbag path” along the estuary :) I saw the very distant point to the south and headed that way. It ended up being about a 5.5 mile walk/hike/adventure from about 10:30 am to 3:15 pm, with a stop for lunch/rest and random videos of “the waves”:

My calves and back of my knees remind me that I was walking in soft and deep sand along the way.

Just about the entire way the waves and colors changed and there were hotels, condos, etc. One area about halfway looked like a very good place to learn to surf for the young ones.

Click Here for my movie/video created from my photos from start to finish.

In Centro this photo reminded me of a statue I saw in Amsterdam, do you remember it from the video there?

                              In San José del Cabo

                                  In Amsterdam 

Here are a few more “Just the Waves” videos, I even added a little narration during each of them to stretch my comfort zone :) just please be patient on each one until the end :)

Click Here for #5 “Just the Waves” 

CLICK HERE for #6 “Just the Waves”

Clique Aqui (click here) for #7 “Just the Waves & a Surfer”

Click Again for #8 “Just the Waves & Rocks”

The weather has been great, however I kind of want to see a cloud or two :) It gets a little cool, 65 after sunset and around 80 in the afternoon.

Today has turned into Siesta(s) Saturday, didn’t sleep well last night (little bit of Montezuma’s Revenge, first time for me).

Sunday I am taking a 4 hour bus ride to La Paz so my next post will be from there.

Hope you are having a great 

Fin de Semana  !!

San José del Cabo Mexico - MyShadowProductions # 114

Hola amigos!!

I made it to San José del Cabo in the State of Baja California Sur in Mexico.

Took an Uber from my apartment to Union Station and then the 5:30am A Line train to the Airport. The direct flight left at 8:30 am and arrived around 11:15am. 28 degree weather to 76 degrees in 2.75 hours, not bad.

Union Station at 5:30 am:

San José del Cabo Airport at 11:30 am:

I opted to take the local bus for the 20 minute ride to San José del Cabo Centro and my hotel, the blue building and across the street from the church. I visited the church of course, always a good idea to check in when visiting a new Pueblo:

           The driver makes change from the coins on his right.

I did a lot of walking and taking photos after that and the movie/video below is my/your first impression of San José del Cabo.

CLICK HERE for your first impressions.

One thing that might need explaining is the “sandbag path” to the beach, kind of an access area for locals away from the hotel area on the beach. It is a path along the fresh water estuary that enters into the Sea of Cortez just a little north of here. Still might need some explaining, but I am kind of tired :)

Thursday night is the “Art Walk” so I was “in luck” with all of the artwork, etc. on the square.

My Thanksgiving dinner was Grilled Sea Bass, rice, vegetables and toasted bread with a Limonada (lemonade with sparkling water) to drink :)

The Sea of Cortez has some serious waves and there are just a few areas where swimming is advised.

Click Here for a short “Just the Waves” video:

Hope you enjoyed your first impressions of San José del Cabo!

Buenas Noches !!!

Denver City Park Geese “Control” - MyShadowProductions # 113

 Well, I spoke too soon in my last post. My next post is not from Mexico but from Denver’s City Park. A sanity walk on a pretty day turned out totally “for the birds/geese” :)

When I took the following photos I was thinking that I should throw something to scare the geese and have all of them fly :)

Little did I know that a few minutes later when I sat down on a bench to “ponder the meaning of life” that I would get to see Park employees utilizing a remote control, orange colored “thing” to scare the geese off the water/ice.

Click the titles below for a few short videos: (hope you get the idea)

Denver City Park Geese “Control” 2

Denver City Park Geese “Control” 3

Denver City Park Geese “Control 4

I also made a movie/video from my other photos for your “viewing pleasure” :)

CLICK HERE for that:

I think I can say again that my next post will be from San Jose del Cabo, Mexico.

Happy Thanksgiving !!!

Denver “Street Art” #8 - MyShadowProductions # 112

Happy mid-November everyone!

It has been a while since my last post but I wanted to keep in touch by saying hello and sharing a movie/video of Denver “Street Art”, the 8th version. I have ventured beyond the title a little by adding some photos from Boulder and the Denver Botanic Gardens as well as one random photo from none of those places, (can you spot it?)

Click Here for the movie/video.

I am grateful that I still get the opportunity to volunteer at the Denver West High School Food Bank (Friday and Saturday) and at the Denver Botanic Gardens (limited by weather this time of year) each week.

Here is a photo from the Denver Botanic Gardens in the Cottonwood Border area:

Most of those leaves have fallen but there are still others in the Dryland Mesa and Bristlecone Border areas as well as cutting back some of the perennials as decided by the horticulturist.

There is a new Art Exhibit at the Denver Botanic Gardens by the artist Sammy Seung-min Lee. Here are my photos and I will let the exhibit explain itself :)

If all goes as planned, my next post will be from the Baja Mexico area. 

In the meantime, it is always a good idea to just:

                   Have a great day !!