Escondido isn’t a very interesting place. It’s a good place to catch our breath, get a couple of boat chores done, and that’s about it really. The marina was built by the Mexican Government’s Tourist Agency and it looks as if they expected some amazing things out of it. They built neighborhoods full of smooth spacious roads and sidewalks. Planted the medians with palms, and posted a guard shack down the main road a ways to keep out the trouble makers. Problem is that nobody came. Not a single development has been built in five years. Not one home or business. Just roads. They even built a little canal where I assume the rich were supposed to build homes and park their yachts. They didn’t. One lone townhouse development stands half built and abandoned, like a testament to the failure that is Puerto Escondido.

They should have just built a marina in Loreto, the nearby town that we all want to go visit but that doesn’t have an anchorage, just an open roadstead not really suitable for much more than an afternoon stop. Anyway, we didn’t do much today. Hung out, went for a swim, a bike ride, and that’s that.