Mexico 2012 RV Trip - Day 66 - March 1, 2012 Bahia de Pascuales - Malaque

This morning we headed north to Malaque, just 82 miles. We again passed coconut plantations and coconut processing plants. Truckload after truckload come in and dump their coconuts out. There are men there cutting the nuts open and drying the fruit as we had seen on the beach a few days ago.
We then passed sugar cane fields, bananas, papayas, mangos, and tomato fields. There were several fruit stands along the way and we kept seeing a large fruit we had never seen before so we had to stop. The woman told us it is called a “yuka” fruit and grows on large trees. The inside of the fruit was an orangish-yellow color, similar to a mango. The flavor was kind of a cross between a mango and cantaloupe. Interesting, but not great enough to warrant buying one of those bad boys! We also tried a chicozapote, which was a round fruit that reminded us kind of a cross between a pear and something else. Again, not especially to our liking, so we paid for one and were on our way!

We arrived in Malaque and found our way to the Laguna Del Tule RV Park. It is packed! We arrived in the middle of the bocce tournament and had to wait until the round was finished before moving
into our RV spot. The RV park is located between the ocean and a lagoon. We are on the lagoon side and we are paying $200 pesos ($15.85USD) for the night.

There are three other RVs from Colorado, as well as many Canadians. Our neighbors just across from us, Bob and his wife, Charlie, are from Elizabeth, Colorado. They are the greatest!

We took the scooter off and he loaned us his jumper cables to get it started after our last repair. Tobey then spent some time trying to fix some of the “fixes” from the last scooter repair shop. He got the housing reattached properly and it doesn’t shake all over anymore.
Bob also gave us lots of tips and information about the area, and helped Tobey cut some low-lying palm fronds from brushing the top of the RV.

We checked out Barre de Navidad to see what it was like. It is across the bay and seems to have more hotels and restaurants than Malaque. This statue was near the beach area. I think Malaque will be quieter and we are happy with our choice.

Just behind our campsite is a lagoon. There are several different types of birds, and there are supposed to be crocodiles in it. We haven’t seen them yet!

On Bob’s recommendation, we had dinner at Scooby’s Tacos and it was delicious! We had barbeque ribs and barbeque chicken with potatoes and salads. It was only $140 pesos ($11 USD) for both dinners with drinks and we were stuffed! The barbeque sauce was so delicious we bought some to take home with us. Now if I can only figure out the recipe …

GPS 19.21598°N, 104.69261°W