Nov 7-El Caracol RV Park.

There are still only two long-term campers in the park, ourselves and a couple from Victoria, BC.   A visual check of other parks nearby reveals the same scenario.   I would imagine that by the 1st of December we should start to see more northerners arriving.    El Caracol has been busy with many short-term visitors, mainly Mexicans from other parts of the country, renting bungalows.   

The campground sells bottled water in 5 gallon jugs, for 25 pesos.   They even deliver the bottle to your trailer.  We have availed ourselves of this service as it saves us getting bottled water in the village and lugging it home.    They gave us an interesting rack to hold the jug.    It really works well when you want to pour into a smaller container.   A metal noose fits over the neck of the jug so that it won’t fall out of the rack when you pivot the jug to pour.   See photo below.

Water jug rack makes pouring a cinch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Besides the beautiful tropical plants and flowers in the campground we have many species of birds, butterflies, and dragonflies.   We also have three friendly iguanas we call the “three amigos”.   There are two adults that are black and brown blotches of colour and a juvenile that is a vivid colour of green.

One of the adult Iguanas.

Juvenile iguana likes to hide amongst the flower pots.

We also have some neighbourly land crabs living under some of the plants next to our patio.  They only come out at night which has caused Nicole to start sitting on the trailer steps so that her feet are off the ground.    She has nicknamed one of the crabs, “Alberto.”   Last night, after dark, she was sitting in a lounge chair and a flower fell off one of the plants.   Thinking it was a marauding crab on the move she let out a shriek and bolted for the trailer.   I have never seen anyone move so fast.   I guess eventually she will get use to them.

Spent most of the morning trying to setup our satelite dish.   Locked onto the suggested coordinates I am getting a strong audio signal on my satelite finder, but for some reason the HD box isn’t receiving a signal.

After three hours of frustration I decided to try again another day.  

This afternoon I put a transparent varnish on some of my seashell collection.   Sure makes them shine in the sunlight.   I made a mobile wind spinner out of some of the larger shells.   Unfortunately, I have not taken a photo of it, but I will, and add the photo to a future post.

That’s it from here.   Another great day in Lo de Marcos.