My right foot and Zihuatanejo
For those that recall the movie ´The Shawshank Redemption´ you might remember Andy Dufrane meeting his mate red on a beach in mexico at the end. That beach is on the central pasific coast and is called Zihuatanejo.
The reason for our 10 hour over night bus from mexico city to Zihuatanejo was surf and relaxing in the sun.
Our first stop was tronconnes beach or la playa tronconnes, a one street town where everyone is on the water and the weather and waves are good. After sorting bungalow accomodation for only 45usd we headed to the local surf shop in search of boards, eager to get some waves and escape from the heat. The waves at our doorstep were not all that great, very little peel mucho close out. After lunch our waiter commented on us being surfers, i guess dining in your board shorts gives a bit away. He directed us 3km up the beach to a nice point break called manzanillo bay which, after navigating the local, what´s a timetable, bus service we surfed the rocky point break for the next 2 mornings. Until, we heard about salidita, and well i road one to many waves over the reef and collected a family of kina spikes in my foot. Theres something not right about dropping down a wave and noticing the rocks emerge as the waves sucks up the water in front of you, then realising that there is only 2 foot of water and its getting shallower. This was all much to the amusement of the resturanter who assisted in removing most of the spikes from my foot using boiling water and lemon juice to scald and soften my foot, it was about this time i started to make some noise, and was sternly told ´not to cry´. After the boiling water came the small piece of wood that he, well, beat my foot with. Im not sure if that was a, lets see if the gringo puts up with this, or a legitimate remedy. This was followed by the needle from a near by tree for removing the embedded spikes.
Later on in the day simon had a hack at my foot. This caught the attention of our alaskan friends in the bungaloo next to us. One of the occupants was able to give some advice, she suggested that i need to soak my foot in an acid juice to neutralize the poison in the spikes, after that the calcuim hard parts will slowly be rejected and fall out. The alternative was to ask simon to continue with the foot surgery, so i opted for the juice technique.
(getting kicked out of the internet cafe...)
(continuing in next blog from a cafe in Ixtapa)
The reason for our 10 hour over night bus from mexico city to Zihuatanejo was surf and relaxing in the sun.
Our first stop was tronconnes beach or la playa tronconnes, a one street town where everyone is on the water and the weather and waves are good. After sorting bungalow accomodation for only 45usd we headed to the local surf shop in search of boards, eager to get some waves and escape from the heat. The waves at our doorstep were not all that great, very little peel mucho close out. After lunch our waiter commented on us being surfers, i guess dining in your board shorts gives a bit away. He directed us 3km up the beach to a nice point break called manzanillo bay which, after navigating the local, what´s a timetable, bus service we surfed the rocky point break for the next 2 mornings. Until, we heard about salidita, and well i road one to many waves over the reef and collected a family of kina spikes in my foot. Theres something not right about dropping down a wave and noticing the rocks emerge as the waves sucks up the water in front of you, then realising that there is only 2 foot of water and its getting shallower. This was all much to the amusement of the resturanter who assisted in removing most of the spikes from my foot using boiling water and lemon juice to scald and soften my foot, it was about this time i started to make some noise, and was sternly told ´not to cry´. After the boiling water came the small piece of wood that he, well, beat my foot with. Im not sure if that was a, lets see if the gringo puts up with this, or a legitimate remedy. This was followed by the needle from a near by tree for removing the embedded spikes.
Later on in the day simon had a hack at my foot. This caught the attention of our alaskan friends in the bungaloo next to us. One of the occupants was able to give some advice, she suggested that i need to soak my foot in an acid juice to neutralize the poison in the spikes, after that the calcuim hard parts will slowly be rejected and fall out. The alternative was to ask simon to continue with the foot surgery, so i opted for the juice technique.
(getting kicked out of the internet cafe...)
(continuing in next blog from a cafe in Ixtapa)
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