Around The World In 80 Waves

I sleep well but wake up really early to a very strange scratching noise at the front door. Tentatively I open it only for what I think is a spider nearly as big as my fist to run inside the cabana.

It turns out it was a hermit crab and I got this poor photograph once I had climbed back off the bed.

I really am that close to the beach here and had to chase him out with a book!

Once the sun comes up I check out the surf which is still gorgeous but has dropped considerably. Due to this and because I still have far to go in Mexico I don’t go in instead treating myself to a monster fry up before departing, having miraculously managed to score all the supplies for one the day before.

The road souh leads me to Zihuatenejo, where I stop to get some more cash. I was already aware of the fighing village because it is where banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) escapes to in the movie ‘The Shawshank Redemption’

He is later joined there by Morgan Freeman’s character Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding after he is released on parole. (A bit of related movie trivia for you on this is that not everybody knows the story was actually written by Stephen King the writer of horror novels such as Carrie and The Shining)

It is now very much a major tourist resort but the sheltered bay is gorgeous and I can see why anybody would want to escape here.

Sadly for me it is too sheltered and there are no waves so I must push on once more.