Hola a todos!

I wanted to share some pictures with you from my latest weekend adventure to Punta Allen, Mexico. Punta Allen is a tiny tiny fishing village of about 400 people on the Caribbean sea about 2 hours away from any other population. Now this was one of the towns that was devastated by Hurricane Dean, so parts of the peninsula were still in complete disarray. For example we went snorkeling one afternoon and discovered that the hurricane had killed most of the reef, kinda sad. But the area is still beautiful. On the east side of the town are the beaches of the Caribbean and on the west side is a giant Laguna. The whole town is the point of a long and skinny peninsula, a 5 minute walk to completely walk from water to water. As you can imagine the town is nothing but white sand, palapa houses on the beach, palm trees, and hammocks. But that is exactly what we wanted this weekend. We saw a few small Mayan ruins, but the majority of out time was spent enjoying the slow life of the Caribbean. Tomorrow at 9 I leave for a 5 day trek through the jungles of the Yucatan to scuba in some of the most exotic cenotes and explore some of the least known Mayan pyramids and cities. I'll be sleeping in a hammock on the beach at the Mayan city of Tulum (see post Oct 11 for Tulum). I'll have unbelievable pictures in about 5 days. But here are a few pictures my friends took this past weekend as I forgot my camera.

Looks like a Corona commercial

Beach that had hurricane "residue" from Dean

Sunset over the Laguna

Me on the beach. Lucky picture...accidental combination of 2 flashes.