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Published: March 15th 2009
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We were up early this morning as we needed to meet up at Cueva Del Pescador to go out fishing. It has been one of my "bucket list" items for a couple years to go out on a panga boat in the Carribean...and today is the day! Also, this was an excellent opportunity for Aidan and Sean to finally go fishing on one of our trips. We have often talked about going out but never had the guts to do it! For those of you who aren't familiar with what a panga boat is, these are boats that you see up and down the Mexican coast usually with white bottoms and colorful trim. They aren't large boats and aren't what you would take out on a commercial fishing trip in the States.
I made a bigger breakfast than usual with bacon, hasbrowns, and bagels to make sure we had a good foundation in our belly for the Dramamine. It was less windy this morning but some storm clouds looked like they were forming and I didn't want to take any chances of our "chumming" the waters. I was starting to have flashbacks of the one time I was deathly seasick
on my dad's boat at Lake Erie many years ago and I know first hand how easily it can ruin a good trip out!
We meet up with Carlos at Cueva's and he heads us out to our boat and crew for our 3 hour fishing trip. He tells us that it is the tale end of Sailfish season and that is what we will be fishing for mostly. A group that went out yesterday caught one, so the crew is looking for another! We get to the boat and climb in and off we go. To see Aidan's face when we hit the first break at the reef before we were in deeper waters was priceless. He wasn't sure if he should be scared out of his skin or if the was as much fun as mom was having. Luckily he caught on how fun it was and the fear was soon gone! So, we trolled for 3 hours in search of the elusive Sailfish, with no luck! But we travelled quite a ways south and I was amazed at the shear size of the All Inclusives on the way down to Tulum. The Gran Bahia resort, which
we saw large of amounts of land development on our way to Aktun Chen, was insanely huge. The word excessive doesn't even begin to touch the amount of land that company has bought is developing...but I digress. As we came to the end of our trip we hadn't caught our dinner yet (well at least Aidan's and Sean's dinner since I don't eat seafood) so we headed over towards Half Moon Bay, dropped some hooks with a little bait on them, and voila--Yellow Tail Snapper. In a matter of 5 minutes we had our dinner! These guys knew exactly where to go for the "easy" catch and it was an awesome experience for Aidan to reel in these three fish! After that it was time to go back in, which perfect for us because we were all wet and it was starting to get a little cold. We said our goodbyes to our crew, set our dinner time for 7 pm, and headed back to the condo.
After we cleaned up and warmed up from our fishing trip, it was time for lunch. Fortunately I was able to convince Sean that we needed to go across 307 to the
Pueblo to find some flat chicken I had read about. When we were there yesterday I didn't see the place that I had read about and wanted to do another pass through. On the way we picked up some hitchhikers (well not really hitchhikers, but a wonderful couple we had met the other night at Lol Ha) who were heading the same way. Unlike us, they like to walk everywhere and even they knew this was a long haul and took us up on our offer! So off to the Pueblo on our Chicken Hunt(hey, we did just go fishing now it's time to hunt my type of food!). We turned down the second street on the right once we entered the village thinking we saw the place, but nope it wasn't it. My hopes were starting dwindle but we kept on driving. Sean took the next side street to the left and we could smell Naty's Loncheria before we saw it! Just down this side street to the right was Naty's. WoooHooo, we found it! 70 pesos per chicken with all the fixings...and we ordered 2 to go. While we waited, it still amazed me the living conditions in
the Pueblo. And then I see something move on the building across the street...and it's a dog on the roof. This made me laugh as you don't see many dogs hanging out on roofs in Tennessee. Anyways, we got our chicken (total 140 pesos) and went back to the condo for some good eating. One chicken was MORE than enough to feed the 3 of us, so we stuck the second one in the fridge for lunch or dinner tomorrow. After that lunch and the after effects of the Dramamine we laid low for the rest of the afternoon.
We headed down to dinner around 6:30ish and had an excellent time. Sean and Aidan thoroughly enjoyed the fish Aidan caught that morning while I enjoyed my landlubbers special and a couple of margaritas. During our dinner we met a great group from British Columbia who were leaving out the next day! Good times meeting new friends. Also, we had a visit from Wayne and Lynn( our hitchhikers from early) to check out what our catch looked like. Unfortunately, there were no traces of any fish when they arrived....Sean and Aidan took care of that.
Tomorrow is our last
full day and our plan is to head to Tulum.
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