What a crazy day this has been! We were up early and took a short walk on the beach before hitting the road. There was lots of mist as the sun was just coming up. 
We spotted this shore bird taking a stroll, too.
It was a much different view of all the restaurants on the beach with no customers in sight! They were pretty busy yesterday!
We decided to backtrack again this morning because we heard about Laguna San Jose Maniaitepec which offered bird watching tours and where you are supposed to be able to swim in the bioluminescent water. We thought we would check it out and maybe spend the night there before moving north. WELL, 15 miles back we stopped and talked to one of the tour operators and he said it wasn’t a good time for the luminescence because the moon is too full. The swimming is done at night and the water is supposed to glow/light up from the plankton in the water. We turned around and headed back north. The 30 mile round trip detour took an hour!
We are getting to be good at helping with the cattle drives here! There were three caballeros (cowboys) moving this pretty large herd of cattle down the road. 
We stopped quite a way back and prevented the northbound traffic behind us from moving while they made their way south and got the cattle off the road.
There were a couple of the cows that didn’t want to cooperate, but they soon got them under control!
Going through the town of Rio Grande we remembered how many three-wheeled taxis we had seen there six years ago. They pack lots of folks into them and just zip along!
We like to try new things when we travel and we saw several of these little stands selling tepache de pina. I’m not sure the translation for tepache, but it tasted like iced tea and pineapple. It was tasty and only $20 pesos (about $1USD).
We stopped in a small town near the Oaxaca/Guerrero state line to find a place for lunch. There were a couple local policemen and they spoke English. Eugenio recommended we have lunch at Restaurant Naya, so we did. Ten minutes later, they pulled in and had lunch, also! We had fun visiting with them and he wanted to have a picture with us and exchange phone numbers! He said to call him if we had any problems. 
From there we headed out in search of a gas station that had the correct hose connections so we could fill with fresh water. Six stations later – success!
By now it was after 4pm when we finished and were only supposed to have about an hour drive before our beach camping location for the night. That didn’t happen!
When we reached De La Guadalupe traffic came to a grinding halt – in both directions! Some group was protesting something and they just closed the road – MEX200 – which goes to Acapulco. I got out and asked a couple of the cars in front of us if they knew what was going on and they just said it was a blockade and would last for an hour or two! This was our view for almost 2 hours! At the bend in the road, cars could turn right and go into the town so there were lots of cars passing in the other lane to get to the town. Then cars from the town would come zipping down the road heading south and there wasn’t space for them to get through without going off the road! There must have been at least 250 cars backed up each direction. It was crazy!
We did watch this goat munching on a tree while we waited and spent time reading! Once they opened the road, it was a steady stream of cars for the next 30 miles or so until our turnoff! We went through another small town that specializes in salt. Stand after stand had it for sale!
The sunset as we traveled our last 30 minutes to our destination. We broke our rule of not driving at night, arriving at 7pm. Fortunately, when we turned off MEX200 onto the road leading to Playa Ventura and there wasn’t much traffic. We are camped at a palapa near the beach and will see how it looks in the morning light!
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