Welcome to this blog post that captures highlights from our 2024 Winter in Uaymitun!
This blog post will highlight the slight wind storm we had, as well as some much nicer events!
Before we talk about windy stuff, here’s some pics to catch up on things happening at the beach before the arrival of Betty and Joanne!
And now to the windy bits! We had been watching the forecast for a few days… the weather man at Meteorología Yucatán was predicting very strong winds across the Yucatán.
True to his word, which can be uncommon amongst his worldwide counterparts, the winds arrived early on the morning of Feb 5th!
Fortunately for us here, the winds didn’t bring any rain and were from the NW so we were able to sit on our patio and watch them blow and blow!
Raymond and Pamela arrived for a visit that afternoon, so we ventured down to the beach! By that time the considerable waves had crested the hightide line and the top of our dune. By the time it was done the waves had pushed almost to our tree line!
During the course of the storm, the waves pushed about a foot of sand up onto the top of the dune!
All in all, we were very fortunate… others along the beach front weren’t! Gaby sent us this video from not that far away down the beach!
The afternoon of the day after the storm, we made an excursion into Mérida! We left the car in the lot behind Santa Lucia Park and enjoyed a walkabout!
It’s a short walk from Santa Lucia to the Luz en Yucatán, our favourite boutique hotel in Mérida, so we took them for a visit!
After a tour, we headed to Centro!
So… a little aside on 3 days of dining issues! On the day of the wind storm, Monday, we were all ready for a jaunt up the coast to Pizza Paradiso… only to find out it was closed on Mondays! We changed plans and had dinner at home!
The day trip to Mérida was the next day, Tuesday, so we planned on going to La Tratto in Santa Lucia park. We had taken Bob & Betty there in 2016 and Betty wanted to go again! It was open when we had walked through the park, but upon our return for supper it had closed at 5PM! Pivoting, we walked back to Centro and had a great dinner at Amaro!
And then the next day we planned a lunch/supper or lupper at La Picuda in Telchac Puerto! When we arrived, it was closed! So we jumped to another Plan B and went to TecnoHotel!
But, back to our Mérida trip and dinner at Amaro…
For several years, each visit to Amaro included Cafe Maya prepared by our favourite waiter, Victor!
As I mentioned, we went on an outing up to Telchac Puerto to enjoy the offerings at La Picuda!
On our way back home, we stopped at Puente del Telchac over the raceway (with every tide) between the lagoon and the port.
Having been denied a Lupper at La Picuda, we decided to stop in at the TecnoHotel restaurant.
Rumour has it that someone, who will remain nameless, Betty, may have fed Luna a few chicken scraps with her fork! Still awaiting the Instant Replay to confirm!
Well, I think I’ll close out this Winter’s 6th blog for now! The next one will highlight visits to Chelem and Hacienda Yaxcopoil !
Cheers!
Love to all,
-Doug and Elaine
Oh I’m drooling looking at all that lovely food! Loving the pictures ❤️
Thanks again,we enjoyed it so much
Thanks again, we had an amazing time
Lots of fun, and good food. It was great to see some of our favorite places. That early storm sure did a lot of damage in places! Wow.