95 degree heat makes us softies from the Pacific Northwest quite sluggish and at times, even grouchy. When the only thing you can do effectively in the intense heat is to sweat profusely from every pore in your body, you tend to question your motive for voluntarily vacationing in an oven. When we sit down for any length of time and feel the sweat trickle down our backs and pooling in our shorts, there's always a moment of panic that others might bring to question our problem with perspiration or possibly incontinence.
To beat the heat we have been in full practice of the afternoon siestas and long rides in the dinghy at high speeds to create our own wind. One morning we ventured out to check a new development that is underway on a peninsula of land here in La Paz called the Mogote. Tremendous amounts of money are being thrown at this resort project which will include a hotel, condos, houses, a golf course and a marina. Due to the state of the world economy and judging by the skeleton crew working on the buildings, I believe they will be a touch behind schedule. We were amazed to find that they had already put in an amazingly green golf course which we can only imagine must demand a large chunk of resources just in its upkeep of watering and fertilizing in a desert environment.
We have also been receiving daily visits from the Marina Palmira resident goose named Lucy. Lucy became a permanent fixture around the marina following Hurricane Marty in 2003 after realizing her opportunistic luck with the bread and veggie rich cruising boat owners. She makes her rounds multiple times daily through the marina fairways, and has learned that loud and persistent honking outside of boats results in food. Lucy parks herself underneath boats and honks at the top of her lungs until food appears, and once she eats her snack, she quietly paddles off. Shawn unfortunately got caught by a "Lucy episode" while on Skype ordering boat parts. She's a hard one to talk over and an even harder one to explain.
To beat the heat we have been in full practice of the afternoon siestas and long rides in the dinghy at high speeds to create our own wind. One morning we ventured out to check a new development that is underway on a peninsula of land here in La Paz called the Mogote. Tremendous amounts of money are being thrown at this resort project which will include a hotel, condos, houses, a golf course and a marina. Due to the state of the world economy and judging by the skeleton crew working on the buildings, I believe they will be a touch behind schedule. We were amazed to find that they had already put in an amazingly green golf course which we can only imagine must demand a large chunk of resources just in its upkeep of watering and fertilizing in a desert environment.
We have also been receiving daily visits from the Marina Palmira resident goose named Lucy. Lucy became a permanent fixture around the marina following Hurricane Marty in 2003 after realizing her opportunistic luck with the bread and veggie rich cruising boat owners. She makes her rounds multiple times daily through the marina fairways, and has learned that loud and persistent honking outside of boats results in food. Lucy parks herself underneath boats and honks at the top of her lungs until food appears, and once she eats her snack, she quietly paddles off. Shawn unfortunately got caught by a "Lucy episode" while on Skype ordering boat parts. She's a hard one to talk over and an even harder one to explain.
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