Getting our bearings....

Friday started slow but we did make it out to explore around and have our first meal out. Gracie and I enjoyed a morning walk on this beach across from the campground where there are new condos. This picture looks the opposite direction from the condo buildings below. The building sitting on the rock on the right, at the end of the wall, is the restuarant where we ate later in the day. There are some pics of it later. One condo building under construction

the other is finished.

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There is a large marina in central San Carlos but we drove out to "Marina Real", about 3 miles out from San Carlos, where we were on our boat in 2000. The roads in this area on which the houses in the foreground are now located were under constuction when we were here back then. There are now many very nice waterfront homes. We took this panoramic picture of the marina area to try to capture that area. There is a multi-story condo building under construction on this large bay. It is the white square shaped object in the distance, breaking the tree line around the bay, you can slightly see it in the distance. It's an area where gringos and well-to-do Mexicans own, mostly, vacation homes. The only homes there when we were there before were those on the little spit of land in the center of the pic. The beach here, Playa Esmerelda, is a beautiful small inlet to the south of Marina Real. Friday was a little cloudy, Saturday was clear and warmer. We're planning to spend the day there Sunday if the weather is at least as warm.