We did some more exploring today. Also did some shopping. There is a market on Thursday open till 1. Missed last week but made it today. Not too large but busy. Half the vendors are local the other half expats selling things they want from wherever home was. Jane got a 15 minute massage that stretched to 20+. The masseuse may have given her extra because we helped a local author after she got bit/stung by some bug and started to swell up. We gave her an antihistamine from our stash. She recovered ok.



The next stop was another resort that we didn’t stay at, Vista Mar. they have a nice looking golf course and a marina. We checked out the course, a lot like Buenaventura, big fat fairways but little shade as there are only palm trees along the fairways. The few greens we could see didn’t look that good either. Buenaventura was nicer but we decided we like Coronado better because of the abundant shade and trees.





Off to Bahia, another resort not far from home. Checking out the bar and restaurant as we may go there for Christmas dinner. Want to see if the food is any good. Nice little bar on the beach. We met a few locals, ranchers and cowboys. We showed them some pictures of the Stampede. They were interested and talked about travelling to Canada next year. We are finding the people here are so friendly and accommodating. We will definitely come back here when we get tired of the snow!




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