A few photos of El Manglar to end the year

New bar installed at El Manglar Restaurant yesterday, the "Grand Opening" was today.

And by 6:30 PM in full swing.

Another boring sunset.

THE SUBLIME

Humming birds showed up a few weeks ago. While looking up feeding info I confirmed what I thought I had remembered about sugar syrup for them: DO NOT use raw sugar or brown sugar. The colour is iron which is highly toxic to humming birds in those amounts. Even the light brown granulated sugar that is common here in Mexico is toxic and will kill them in time. Nor should powdered sugar be used--it contains anti-caking agents which is bad for them. Never thought that I would be hunting for "healthy" granulated white sugar! Finally found 2 kilo bags at the Comercial Mexicana!

AND THE RIDICULOUS

PAINTING IN THE PARK

We had had some body and paint work done just after arriving and when our friends Dale and Barb arrived we told them about Margarito. Dale and Barb had been hit in the rear by a runaway trailer while on their way home from Mexico last year and totally smashed in the rear of their motorhome. It was deemed a writeoff but they decided to patch it up. On arrival here this year there was a lot of screw holes etc left from the temporary plywood repairs done in Mexico. Also the decals were quite sun faded on the left side.

Margarito and Dale discussed what was wanted/needed and soon they were at work. Those curved waves on the side are not decals: Photographed, paint matched and painted on.

About a week later Fred arrived, planning to stay a day or two while making his way further south. When Art noticed some serious damage to the fibreglass body on the left rear of his 1990 Winnebago Warrior he said "I know someone who can fix that."

Margarito came around and Fred was quoted a few thousand pesos. Then they began looking at the years' and decades' collection of dents, bumps, tears and scrapes. A little bargaining and 15,000 pesos and one week later a full body repair and repaint:

 (note, 15 pesos to the Canadian dollar, 20 to the US dollar)