(at right, John and Joanne Powles)
| On the road again, we stopped overnight at Puerto Vallarta for reprovisioning, and then continued southward to the palm-fringed beach at Boca de Iguanas near Manzanillo. The campground was idyllic, except that Carolyn and other Email fans had to travel twenty miles to Melaque for an internet cafe. |
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(at right, John and Joanne Powles) |
| The beach and adjacent farming and grazing land provided excellent birding. |
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| The biggest social event of our stay was a Goofy Gift Party. Inexpensive and idiosyncratic gifts contributed by each rig were lined up in plain wrappers. Then, in an order determined by lot, each rig chose a gift, which had to be opened immediately and displayed to everyone. The catch was that all subsequent choosers could elect to claim a gift already chosen instead of one of those remaining unchosen. People whose gifts were thus expropriated than had another choice between an unopened or an already chosen gift. |
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May Gong |
Coen Dexter, Lee & Pat Yoder, Wendy Forster, John Powles |
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Duane & June Whitten |
Linda Dunnam, Ann Jenkins, Lee & Shirley Sutton |
Walt & Margot Borden |
| One birding destination at Boca Beach was the nearby road to the posh Blue Bay Club, where an extremely friendly resident emerged from a hammock in his thatched ramada to welcome us and present bouquets to our ladies. Along the road we found three species new to Carolyn and Charlie. |
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with Joanne Powles |
Joanne & John Powles, Charlie |
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