Hi folks. Found some pics from Jan '85 from one of my Zip trips. In '85 it was pretty small. No paved roads, about 20 palapas on the beach, no toilets or running water but there was limited electricity. The road from Prt Angel was just a rutted dirt track.
I always stayed at Lulu's palapa and I had a photo of her but it somehow didn't survive all these years. It cost $0.75 a night if you rented a hammock or $0.25 if you had your own. Lulu made breakfast (pancakes and banana topping) and lunch (vegetables and whatever fish was caught) over an open fire. You could also have a skinny chicken slaughtered for about $1.50 but you had to pluck the feathers yourself. There's a picture here of the baker lady who made bread and fruit turnovers in a clay oven. Cheap and good!
The wild horses came to the beach every morning and evening. Wonder if they're still there? In the other picture you can see one of the town pigs hanging around the palapa looking for crumbs.
Beverages were kept in a cooler-box and paid on the honor system. Soft drinks were $0.35 and beers were $0.25 and we just kept track in a binder and Lulu would collect payment every three days. Really rough Mexican brown weed was about $5 an ounce. Sometimes we'd get the kids to climb trees and bring us coconuts and we'd make a concoction in a bucket called Coco-Loco with raw rum, coconut milk, and lemon juice.
Anyway, if Lulu is still around someone tell her we said hello.
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