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Wave sweeps away visitors on Cabo beach Couple visiting from Texas had gone for a walk on the beach 217 1 Mexico News Daily | Friday, June 17, 2016 A walk on the beach in Cabo San Lucas Wednesday evening proved fatal for a couple visiting from Texas. Nancy and Richard Culpepper, both believed to be 85, were swept away by a large wave as they walked on the beach at the Pueblo Bonito hotel, where they were staying. Navy personnel succeeded in pulling Nancy Culpepper from the water, but she died shortly after. Her husband died before help could arrive and his body was later recovered from the water. A sergeant with the Cabo San Lucas firefighters’ water rescue unit said hotels need to do more to warn visitors that waves can be dangerous. Gabriel García Tinoco said it was a recurring issue that people walk on the beach and neglect to follow the instructions they have been given. On the Pacific Ocean side, he said, conditions can be treacherous and large waves can appear very quickly. According to U.S. State Department statistics, more than 150 Americans drowned in Mexico between January 2010 and December 2015. - See more at: http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/wave-sweeps-away-visitors-on-cabo-beach/?utm_source=Mexico+News+Daily&utm_campaign=08d42ae5e6-June+18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f1536a3787-08d42ae5e6-348153685#sthash.uRPtoKiX.dpuf

Wave sweeps away visitors on Cabo beach

Couple visiting from Texas had gone for a walk on the beach

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Mexico News Daily | Friday, June 17, 2016

A walk on the beach in Cabo San Lucas Wednesday evening proved fatal for a couple visiting from Texas.

Nancy and Richard Culpepper, both believed to be 85, were swept away by a large wave as they walked on the beach at the Pueblo Bonito hotel, where they were staying.

Navy personnel succeeded in pulling Nancy Culpepper from the water, but she died shortly after. Her husband died before help could arrive and his body was later recovered from the water.

A sergeant with the Cabo San Lucas firefighters’ water rescue unit said hotels need to do more to warn visitors that waves can be dangerous. Gabriel García Tinoco said it was a recurring issue that people walk on the beach and neglect to follow the instructions they have been given.

On the Pacific Ocean side, he said, conditions can be treacherous and large waves can appear very quickly.

According to U.S. State Department statistics, more than 150 Americans drowned in Mexico between January 2010 and December 2015.

- See more at: http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/wave-sweeps-away-visitors-on-cabo-beach/?utm_source=Mexico+News+Daily&utm_campaign=08d42ae5e6-June+18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f1536a3787-08d42ae5e6-348153685#sthash.uRPtoKiX.dpuf

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Getting Naked At Zipolite Mexico Bare Beach

Guest website by: Nomadic Nudist

Only a little while back, my wife J and I got to spend some time in Zipolite on the Pacific coast of Mexico. Zipolite is among the few beaches in Mexico that bears naturists. The beach is dotted with pubs, restaurants, resorts, fishermen, expat North Americans, expat Italians and happy Mexicans giggling at our dearth of shame.

Days in Zipolite instantly slipped into a meandering rhythm of skinny dipping, drinking and laughing. I spent my mornings running on the beach followed by skinny dipping and naked sunbathing. J and I rented a bungalow on the hill overlooking the bare Mexiac sand.

Zipolite Mexican Nudist Naked Beach

We had a hammock, a bed, a backyard kitchen space and not much more, not even a door. It was perfect.

I spent my time at the bungalow naked, loving the sea breeze. J ordinarily wore a sarong. There’s lots to eat along the strand and in town where we found Mexican and Italian food.

Zipolite Bare Nudist Mexican Sand Resort

Here are some selections from my journal written during our week in Zipolite:

11/13/12

Monday afternoon was spent with J in the hammock. Afterward we walked the amount of Zipolite. We caught a sunset in the Eastern end where we drank Cornonas and watched silhouetted fishermen complete their day’s work perched on the giant boulders that protrude from the surf.

Dinner at a beachside restaurant and then back to the bungalow for some reading. J attempted to see TV on the laptop but it didn’t work out. I’m not convinced I am miserable about that.

Tuesday, today.

social hypocrisy needs us to keep concealed — freedom from the restraint and self control implied by awoke at 6:30 and went to the sand for a skinny dip. I am not confident the naturist thing will work out well here. Very few folks seem to be carrying it out. I have seen maybe less than a dozen nudies, all guys, and one topless woman. We are going to see what the heat of the day brings. Right now I’m happily roasting in the early morning Mexican sunshine.

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The golden eagle Golden eagles remain endangered

Golden eagles remain endangered in Mexico Only about 100 couples remain in the wild, according to official estimates   4  1 Mexico News Daily | Tuesday, June 21, 2016 In Mexico, the golden eagle, Aquila chrysaetos canadensis, is the national symbol, emblazoned on the flag and the official seal, but it is probably more evident as a symbol than it is in real life: only about 100 couples have been estimated to remain. Prehispanic cultures held the eagle in high esteem, considering it as a celestial symbol and the incarnation of fire and the sun. The Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlán was built according to instructions by the god Huitzilopoztli, that the Aztecs settle in a place where an eagle would be seen battling a snake. The national identity of the Mexican nation became closely linked with the Mexica legend, and the image of an eagle on a nopal cactus clasping a serpent in its beak and claws has appeared in one form or another as the official seal through the centuries. Originally distributed over half of the current national territory, the águila real was included on the endangered species list in 1994, its habitat having been lost to population growth, mining activities, accidental poisoning and illegal hunting. It wasn’t until 2007 that the Environment Secretariat (Semarnat) created a conservation strategy, and by 2009 a collaborative effort was set in motion to increase the number of eagles in the wild and to raise awareness among the population. But today, barely 50 nests have been accounted for in the wild, while 95 specimens are held in captivity. In a recent event, Semarnat officials turned over four golden eagles to the Defense Secretariat (Sedena) after the birds had been illegally removed from their habitat and later seized by environmental officials. During the event, Semarnat chief Rafael Pacchiano said Mexico is not prepared to lose its national symbol. He added that with the collaboration of Sedena and society at large not only will golden eagles be saved, but many other endangered species as well. After the event, Pacchiano gave representatives of the indigenous Huichol people 223 eagle feathers, taken from birds raised in captivity. The Huicholes have traditionally used the feathers in their religious and cultural festivities but since the birds are now endangered they have pledged to support their conservation by refraining from hunting and capturing them. Source: Crónica (sp), El Sol de México (sp), Ciencias Ambientales (sp) - See more at: http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/golden-eagles-remain-endangered-in-mexico/?utm_source=Mexico+News+Daily&utm_campaign=a340057f52-June+21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f1536a3787-a340057f52-348153685#sthash.tccYiRkE.dpuf

Thank you, Chris, for making us laugh

Author of Under the Palapa died last week in Puerto Vallarta

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Mexico News Daily | Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Writing humor is a challenge: readers can be just as easily offended as they can be amused and in an age where online commenting has become a magnet for the most vile and hateful insults, writers need a thick skin.

That’s what Mexico News Daily columnist Chris Dalton found when he began sending us a weekly column last July. He even took a break from writing Under the Palapa so as “to heal” but came back earlier this month, seemingly intent on soldiering on, determined to make people laugh.

But, alas, Chris’ June 4 column was his last. He died last week in Puerto Vallarta.

Chris Dalton wrote 32 pieces for Mexico News Daily, most of which had previously appeared on a regional blog.

But it was new material to many of our readers and most enjoyed Chris’ tales about looking for and buying a retirement condominium in Puerto Vallarta. He recalled the many trials and tribulations of the process, telling tales that generated lots of comments, most of which were encouraging and positive at the beginning.

But there came times when some readers failed to see the funny side of his stories, or saw them as insulting, offensive or even racist. There were several occasions when angry readers offered spiteful responses, canceled their subscriptions to the Email News Update or wrote to ask why we continued to publish such “rubbish.”

But Chris never intended to insult or offend anyone and was far from being a racist.

We gave serious consideration to readers who urged that we drop his column but the fact was that Chris usually made me laugh with his clever turn of phrase.

Not always, mind you. There were occasions when I considered not running a column but was later glad I did when it was greeted with positive and friendly feedback in the comments section.

One of the best responses I saw to some badgering he received online was the suggestion that reading the column was not obligatory. If you don’t like it, don’t read it. Good advice.

Chris’ background was in film. A Canadian, he produced more than 4,000 television commercials and was a producer and production manager for television and movies in a career that spanned three decades.

Five years ago, he and his wife Michelle began looking for a retirement property in Mexico, finally settling on a condo in Puerto Vallarta.

His readers know the rest of the story, which began here.

On April 30 we published his third-to-last piece in which he wrote about turning 70, a column that has me chuckling again now. He lamented that his runs on the malecón had become more like a shuffle than a run and that he could no longer squat — “it’s just a lean-down kind of thing now.”

He also wrote that just prior to his birthday he decided to make a lit of all the people he had upset over the last 70 years and ask forgiveness, a chore that “took longer than I thought.”

Had there actually been such a list a few Mexico News Daily readers might have been on it. But the number would have been far fewer than those who read his columns and enjoyed them.

RIP, Chris. I hope that wherever you are, you’re comfortably settled under a palapa.

—Tony Richards, Publisher