We found it… Paradise

We left El Tunco twice, the first time we were about ½ an hour away when it dawned on me we had forgotten a pot!  I am not leaving one of my 2 pots behind so we retraced our steps and made it out by 11, a late start for us.

We had an idea of where we were going but as the beach known as Flores wasn’t on a map (or known by Greta) we set off with more of a general idea and not a final destination. I saw a sign to a beach that was mentioned in the Lonely Planet Central America (I finally got a copy a week before we left Guatemala), and turned down the road.  The road ended at a couple of little restaurants and a couple of hotels that were either closed or abandoned, we couldn’t tell which. 

We let the dogs out to finally get a walk and go pee and were greeted by no less than five barking dogs, our once frantic dog attacking dogs that we had problems walking on the strand, calmly walked past the them and didn’t even pay them any attention, they are getting so good! 

We asked the locals if there was a nice hotel around, we had a recommendation to look for a guy named something O’Rourke who worked at a hotel but considering we weren’t sure where we were, we figured that finding him would be slim to none.  We took the locals recommendation and found a great little spot called the “Green Tortuga”, right on the beach, still undergoing construction but for $35 a night (and they took the dogs) possible less if we don’t use the air, and a pool we were in. 

As always we booked it for a night, just to see if it is really as good as it appeared and went to check out the beach.  The waves are much smaller here than in Tunco, maybe two feet high, the beach is flat and sandy and there is a nice breeze from the west, basically it is perfect. 

 

As we settled in and got our modem hooked up, we met a kid from New York, he has been here for four months working on social marketing for the hotel, after a bit of conversation I asked him his last name, O’Rourke!  Once again we found the place we were supposed to be, quite by chance.

The next morning during low tide we decided to brave the waters and took the boards out for our first open ocean experience (ok we went out in Puerto Vallarta but that is a very calm bay).  We never got past the first round of breakers but had so much fun we decided to stay a few more days.  This is the first place we’ve visited that makes us think… there is hotel down the road for sale, and if the price is right we may just stay!