Dave's croc experience

After a week in this state of Guerrero, we head back to Jalisco State for Christmas.
Melaque will be hustling by the time we get there on Sunday. Families from the interior come in droves. Some come by cars but larger extended families rent a bus and they are all aboard with suitcases, coolers, beach umbrellas and end up staying as many as ten to one hotel room. A friend Antiono told us he travels with a family of 42, grandparents, aunts, uncles, kids, the whole gang.
It is wonderful that families spend this qualiry time together
Happy to be in our own house these two weeks. Other Canadians who stay in the posadas and bungalows for the winter, want to leave town between Christmas and New Years.
Last year, we counted 44 buses parked in little La Manzanilla, the first village we stayed in six years ago.
Here in Melaque, the number of buses is the same but they are spread around town and harder to count.

Meanwhile, back at the eco reserve here in Zihua, a different story today than on Tuesday. I guess we were too noisey as we biked through the cilopista, saw a few animals but today was a major treat.

First off, the birds... Many ibis, egrets and a beautiful rosetta spoonbill, had never been that close before.
Little deer with cute horns was a welcome sight as well.
Just outside the park gate there is a bit of a roundabout on the trail. As the bike went into the turn, a croc scared the poop out of Dave.
There was a foot and a half of space for Dave to scoot by the end of his tail, required a very quick reaction but when the head whipped around, the snap of the jaws made that bike move at top speed!!!

All evening , there were flashbacks for the big boy, not soon to forget the sound of the snap! Later I asked Dave how I would have told his Dad that his son had left the world in the mouth of a croc. His response.....ya gotta go one way or another!