Arroyo Seco RV park open; Revolution Day parade in La Manzanilla

ARROYO SECO, Jalisco, Mexico - The RV park in Arroyo Seco - Isidro's Las Brisas - is officially open and like all good businesses, has a website with photos and contact information.

Link to Las Brisas: Las Brisas RV park in Arroyo Seco

Here's the text from the website:

Isidro's Las Brisas RV Park is on the large beach (Playa Grande) in Arroyo Seco, Jalisco Mexico.  This park is only about 10 miles from Tenacatita Beach which is now closed. This park has sewer hook ups, water and electrical.  Each lot is separately metered and you also pay your own electrical.  There are two toilets and two showers for your use.  There are also two palapas you can sit under or hang your hammock from. The ocean is just across the road.  This site has about 12 acres of palm trees and it is a very peaceful and tranquil site.  Please call 210-399-6997 (US number) or 315-355-5224 (Mexico number) if you have any questions or want to make reservations.


 The area is likely of special interest this season, with Tenacatita's beach and campgrounds blocked off by the police protecting Jose Villalobos. At the same time, a new restaurant has opened on the beach, operated by Luis, who has run the Las Brisas restaurant for a number of years.

The new restaurant is open most days and the menu is similar to last year's: lots of seafood, all of it good.

Visit La Manzanilla posts Revolution Day Parade video

In La Manzanilla today, the parade to celebrate Revolution Day wasn't too revolutionary. La Manzanilla's Lois Lane called it 'the parade that wasn't' because it started earlier than expected.

Earlier? In Mexico. What the #%@&*$^%??????....

But there is video proof that the parade did take place - a video taken for Visit La Manzanilla (LINK: Visit La Manazanilla) that shows smiling children walking down the streets.

Here it is the video from YouTube:

Surfing competition set for Arroyo Seco for Saturday and Sunday

ARROYO SECO, Jalisco, Mexico - The La Manzanilla message board carried some information in the last 10 days about a surfing competition to be held Saturday and Sunday here. No signs have been posted, or any local notice given. But at least two local surfers believe it is going to happen - so that counts as confirmation.

Surf's up Saturday - but bring a lawn chair and some shade.

The two Arroyo Seco beaches, Playa Grande and Playa Chica, have seen plenty of surfing action this season. During Semana Santa, sometimes there would be as many as 30 surfers in the water.

The competition is supposed to start at 9 a.m. according to reports, though which beach the surfistas will head to depends on wind, tide and swell.

I'm betting either end of Playa Grande will be the site.

The waves have been quite large for the past week - maybe too large to even surf.

But last season a visitor - originally from South Africa - caught a perfect wave at Playa Chica and was caught on the video below.

Going through the photos from last season in Mexico

ARROYO SECO, Jalisco, Mexico - In preparation for our return to Mexico in December, the Admiral and I are going through our photos, sorting and deleting to make room for the next batch, sure to fill up the hard drives of the computers.

We ran across the scenes below.

You can almost smell the salt and feel the heat off the sand.

How many days until we leave?


At Playa Chica, the good surf beach


Surf's up at Playa Chica


Playa Grande - more houses, but safer swimming

More photos from Arroyo Seco, Tenacatita and La Manzanilla

ARROYO SECO, Jalisco, Mexico - In going through files this week, a treasure trove of photos has surfaced.

One shows some surfer-dudes getting ready to hit the water in Arroyo Seco. That photo is truly historic as it was taken only a few days after we decided to buy the downtown Arroyo Seco lot for a combination conference center, safari camp and cantina. And the surfer dudes - who were hungry, thirsty and looking for lodging - validated our idea of what we wanted to build (and are building) in the village.

More on how it's developing will be posted in future blogs, or in the Captain's Blog. (The link is on the right of this posting.)

Another photo is of some swimmers at the beach at Boca de Iguanas, getting ready to brave an undertow that is supposed to be fierce.

The third shot was taken while a team of professional photographers was taking wedding photos on the beach at Tenacatita.

Talk about bringing back memories...


Surfer dudes with the Admiral Fox and son Dylan Fox (cowboy hat)


Watch out for that famous Boca undertow!


Taking wedding photos at Tenacatita Beach

Long dormant, The Bugle will reawaken this fall

ARROYO SECO, Jalisco, Mexico - After a long hiatus, the Tenacatita Bay Bugle will be back in business publishing later this fall when a merger with the Arroyo Seco Sentinel takes place.

Watch this space for more news on that merger.

In the meantime, if a log looks like it is swimming through the water, move away from it.