Wednesday around Puerto Penasco

On Wednesday, we decided to visit a neighboring village, La Choya (or La Cholla, or Cholla Bay) and return to the restaurant by the Reef RV park for lunch.

Some of us wanted to get a walk in during the morning, so set out walking, with the plan for the two drivers to come pick us up when we called...

Along the way, we walked across a vacant lot... Pam and Carl (aka Carlos) take the left fork...

Nancy and Wayne bringing up the rear

Uh oh, there is a fence... can we escape through the fence? I guess we did! Did you hear about anyone breaking through a fence in Mexico? "Carlos" became "Carlos the Jackal".

The sign told us to turn right to get to La Choya...

Along the way, Pam found a couple of geocaches, so we got to participate with her!

Cholla Bay (or La Choya or La Cholla) is an interesting town. It is pretty with buildings painted different bright or pastel colors and some with beautiful tile work. It appears to be mainly inhabited by gringos (white people), but we saw NO ONE there, except a few Mexican construction workers. It was rather eerie!

Most of the houses had water reservoirs on the roof for their water supply.

An example of a brightly colored home/compound with some tile decoration.

A building with interesting dolphin shaped block glass windows, though the walls are not painted that made it different and more boring than most of the other buildings.

Another house with pretty accents. Note that there is a tall garage door on one of the garages -- we saw these on many houses, that we would have thought to be a RV garage in some parts of the US, but most of the ones we saw seemed either too narrow to be able to get an RV into, or the space in front of the entrance was too short to think about getting a big RV lined up to get into the garage.

This was the welcome sign into the town (we stopped so I could take it on the way out)...

This sign welcomed us to Cholla Bay... - it seemed to be a nice town, just with no residents in residence! We were wondering if the owners had purchased some years ago, and the time for construction in Mexico meant that their houses were not completed until many years later, at which time the original owners could no longer travel or had passed away, and their children don't know what to do with the properties? It just seems like a very odd town!

We stopped at the restaurant at the Reef and Carl and I got guacamole and salsa and fish tacos (we didn't get a picture of the fish tacos when they came)...

When we got back to our RV park, Santiago and crew were close to finishing up their work on Steve and Nancy's RV. Steve had moved it to the front of the park away from any other RVs to avoid any paint drifting and to ensure that it had good sun coverage for drying.

I was to get a pedicure in the afternoon so had my feet soaking for a while...

... until Martina came to do the pedicure.

Sunset over California Bay -- can you hear the "hiss" as the sun hits the water?

Beautiful skies...

So lovely!

It was a little chillier on Wednesday with wind (high in high 60s instead of 70s) and a bit cloudy, but that gave us the beautiful sunset.