Look out, turtle nests

The big waves of last week came all the way up to the walls of the hotels - and made new landscaping - not so much land, as lots of water. It was a full moon, too - and turtles had been laying eggs. We found some eggs floating on the backwash and proceeded to mess with mother nature, and buried what we found....it felt sort of stupid and hopeful at the same time. Later we passed a woman who had been walking strangely in front of us, and we found she was holding two baby turtles close to her. She stated that she was" going to put them in the bucket in the condo as the sign said."
Ok- two were ssaved that morning.

You can get an idea of the mountains around Banderas Bay from the top photo, some rise to about 5000' in elevation. One of the local boat people collected clothes and such from us to take to poor people in the mountains. As we are running low on stores and are going to the US to buy food you can't get here, I sent along a bunch of food, including Alfredo Sauce. Wonder what they will think of that - we know that the people here are into pasta as we see giant bags of it, sort of dirty, though, at the local market. We are so legislated for cleanliness in the US and get all litigous if our food gives us diarhhea - here, a little dirt seems to faze no one. I did send a package out of our 80 some packages of pasta, though. We were told it gets down to zero up in the mountains and the poor people in the unfinished homes that the guy visits are really suffering. I feel like Marie Antoinette, sort of , but did send along a sleeping bag - they can be warm while munching pasta alfredo.