Port #2: Mazatlan

In Mazatlan we took a water taxi out to stone island, which is BEAUTIFUL...here we got to ride horses on the beach...yes, I rode a horse!

I simply stood on the beach for hours mesmerized by the waves
coming in and the beauty of it all.
The pictures simply do not do it justice.
It was the most beautiful beach I've ever seen.

Lost in the beauty of it all, I forgot to put sunscreen on,
and suffered the consequence of a very bad sunburn!

As you might have guessed we were surrounded
by many very friendly Mexicans. And so we
did a bit of shopping here as well.

Bryan scoping out the Coconut farm

Yes, believe it or not, this is ME on a horse. I was scared to death, and somehow I ended up on horse that is going blind, notice the patch on his eye. I know that dear horse could sense my
fear, which only made things worse. All the other horses seemed to follow the guide, but my horse had a mind of it's own and kept wondering off, and me with my lack of horse know-how had no idea what to do. Bryan conversed with our guide in Spanish and explained that I didn't understand what to do--I think that helped a little. We ended up going on the little horse excursion twice. The second time the guide gave me a nicer horse and
actually some instruction on how to guide the horse.

Mindy and our horse guide.

What a RELAXING day on the beach--thanks Mazatlan!