Tuesday 2 June 2015

Pacific Fauna

Ok. I've seen a white skunk thing. Frigate birds. Brown Pelicans. Mahoosive butterflies. Clown fish. Puffer fish. Iguanas. Buzzards. Vultures. Big bugger wasps. Fish that looked like Angel fish. Big arse crabs. A bird that looked very much like road runner. Ants that'll have your leg off. And tomorrow, hopefully humming birds. All in the wild. Not to mention the crocodiles, ostriches, deer and monkeys in the hotel zoo.


Saturday 30 May 2015

Jet Lag

Here I lie in the dark. Wide awake at 5am. The dreaded jet lag. It's 11am in real money and my body insists I should be up and about, completely refusing to sleep. But it's still nighttime. Full dark, with no signs of the sky starting to lighten any time soon. I went out onto the balcony and looked over the trees outside. There was a rustling sound, and I could see below me a whitish creature with a bushy tail that reminded me of a skunk.

We're in Nayarit, Mexico at the Grand Palladium Vallarta. It's beautiful. Our room's not quite what we expected, far more basic than the suite I thought we'd ordered, but we'll sort that out later this morning.

It's all inclusive, something we've never done before. But I'm liking it. You ask for a drink and you get it, with no charge, anytime. We ate at the Viva Mexico restaurant last night. The food was just what we needed after a very long day. We'd been up since 5am and it was 9pm Mexico time.

It's still dark. It's still early. Let's see if I can get 40 winks.