- Locals are attempting to clean up their beaches by hand!
Pemex still has not started cleaning up any of their mess on the beaches impacted by the crude oil spill and the Pemex oil spill still sits out in the Pacific Ocean suffocating the Pacific Ocean waters and Pacific Ocean Marine Life off the Oaxaca coast! - LikesSee All
- ActivityRecent"Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up. joined Facebook.
- Keep our water clean! If our oceans die we all die!
- Here are this weeks insights, this is how many people we have reached during our first week of operations on facebook! We are making a difference! Keep spreading the word!
Total Likes?
188 [up] 132.1%
Friends of Fans?
59,830
People Talking About This?
856 [up] 524.82%
Weekly Total Reach?
18,538 [up] 1130.94% - We want to give a shout out to our friends at Surfer Magazine and thank them for their media support in helping us inform the Surfers about this Pemex oil spill! Thanks for your support Surfer Magazine! http://www.surfermag.com/industry-news/pemex-oil-spill-in-oaxaca-mexico/
It was estimated by non governmental environmental coalitions and local fishermen who rely on the fish in the area for their food supply and their families employment that over 600,000 liters of crude oil leaked into the Pacific Ocean at Sa...See More- We the People of United North America are going to "flood" the Mexican government with letters, emails, and phone calls in our North American unified continental "Public Outrage" flooding campaign about this crude oil spill they are trying to abandon and are refusing to start clean up efforts on.
We are going to do a North American continental triple whammy "flooding" of the Mexican federal govern...See More - Crude oil spill by Pemex in Oaxaca left unattended and spreading in the Pacific Ocean for 2 weeks with no official Mexican Press Release to the public for 2 weeks. The spill was abandoned and the truth of the oil spill was hidden from the public for 2 weeks as massive toxic poisoning to pacific coast marine life continued, and it still not being cleaned up! The crude oil spill is now threatening many surfing destinations in Oaxaca. It has contaminated world class surfing destination Salina Cruz and is spreading to other surf breaks in Oaxaca! Surfers Beware! This crude is traveling! Who will want to surf in this toxic waste? Not me! — in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca.
- WILDCOAST is organizing a physical in person international protest at the Pemex Congress on September 11th and they are joining with Greenpeace in this international protest and have requested my media assistance to help them gather the local Salina Cruz Surfers and Surf Camp Owners in Salina Cruz to join them with Boards in Hand at this protest!
We are gathering a unified force of surfers, fish
e...See More
- A funeral for an endangered species. Thousands of sea turtles made their way through the Pemex crude oil spill in the Pacific Ocean over the weekend to arrive at their nest to lay their eggs. They will not survive, and neither will their ha...See More
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- Please watch this! We are seeking a volunteer bilingual video producer who can translate this video into English subtitles for us, so we can reach the English speaking news media with this video! We are seeking any volunteer video producer ...See More
- Please share this page like crazy EVERYWHERE! Wildcoast is getting some spanish speaking media to cover this oil spill but they need local residents in the Salina Cruz area to talk to this television media when they come to the Salina Cruz area to cover the oil spill so we can keep pressuring Pemex harder with television media coverage of the local residents public outrage! If you live in the Salina Cruz area please contact us immediately! We need locals from Salina Cruz to help get a message out to the television media! Help us with this call out to all surfers and/or fishermen who live in the Salina Cruz area! Alert them they we need their voice on video for the media! thanks, Donna Love
Crude oil spill by Pemex in Oaxaca left unattended and spreading in the Pacific Ocean for 2 weeks with no official Mexican Press Release to the public for 2 weeks. The spill was abandoned and the truth of the oil spill was hidden from the p...See More
- For starters we are encouraging everybody in U.S.A and Mexico to immediately contact Mexico's "National Commission of Natural Protected Areas" (CONANP). The U.S.A NPS (National Park Service) has worked together with CONANP on several wildli...See More
- Please "share" this page with your friends on facebook! United we stand!
- I am asking that hundreds of people in the surfing industry and the ocean protection industry to PLEASE hit the share button on our banner to help our public awareness outreach campaign this week! Time is running out and this is an urgent matter! If you make our banner your "cover" photo this week only, then that would even be more helpful! — in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca.
Seven species of sea turtles were found dead on three different turtle nesting beaches. Some of these are world wide endangered species that face extinction from this toxic poisoning at this time of their yearly arrival to their egg laying ...See More- Thank you Oceanforce and Ocean Defender for your support!
It was estimated by environmentalist and fishermen that over 600,000 liters of crude oil leaked into the Pacific Ocean by Pemex, who lied to the public and stated that it was only 10,000 liters.- Help us put North American public continental pressure on the Mexican government to start cleaning up this two week oil spill in the Pacific Ocean IMMEDIATELY! Sea Life is dying and 9 pristine beaches have been impacted on the Pacific Coast! Help us all "flood" the Mexican governmemt with letters, emails, and phone calls from all of the Pacific Coast Regions in all of U.S.A, Mexico, and Canada!
- Please write the Mexican government and put pressure on them to start cleaning up this 2 week oil spill IMMEDIATELY! PLEASE SHARE THIS VIDEO WITH EVERYBODY!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_rUAyHP7RA&feature=youtu.be
- Press Release August 24, 2012,
PEMEX OIL SPILL IN OAXACA, MEXICO, THREATENS SEA TURTLES AND WORLD-CLASS SURFING BEACHES
WiLDCOAST Asks Mexican Government to Start Cleanup and Establish Restoration and Compensation Fund
A PEMEX oil spill in the port of Salina Cruz in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca went uncontained for 11 days along Pacific Coast beaches, impacting more than 12 miles of coastl...See More
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Help us put immediate and relentless pressure on the Mexican Government to start cleaning up this oil spill NOW! Write the Mexican government and demand they clean this oil spill up NOW! http://www.conanp.gob.mx/contacto.php
Playa Zipolite. Welcome To The Beach Of The Dead!: Night of the RadishesA Mexican festival that cente...
Playa Zipolite. Welcome To The Beach Of The Dead!: Night of the RadishesA Mexican festival that cente...: Published: Dec. 12, 2011 Updated: 6:30 p.m. Text: Next Article » Night of the RadishesA Mexican festival that centers around radish carv...
Booking.com: Hotel Posada San Jose, San Pedro Pochutla, Mexico ... Hotel Posada San Jose is located just next to a bus station and 25 minutes' drive from Huatulco International Airport. www.booking.com/hotel/mx/posada-san-jose.en.html
Booking.com: Hotel Posada San Jose, San Pedro Pochutla, Mexico ...
Hotel Posada San Jose is located just next to a bus station and 25 minutes' drive from Huatulco International Airport.
www.booking.com/hotel/mx/
Hotel Posada San Jose is located just next to a bus station and 25 minutes' drive from Huatulco International Airport.
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Hotel Posada San Jose
Constitucion Sin numero, Colonia centro, 70900 San Pedro Pochutla (Show map)
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Hotel Posada San Jose is located just next to a bus station and 25 minutes’ drive from Huatulco International Airport. It features an outdoor swimming pool and a garden.
The rooms offer basic décor, a ceiling fan and cable TV. The bathroom is private and has a shower. Wake up service is available.
24-hour front desk and a tour desk are featured in Hotel Posada San Jose and ecotourism activities can be arranged by the hotel. The restaurant zone is located within 200 metres distance.
Puerto Ángel Beach and Puerto Escondido Beach are located 20-minute drive from the hotel. Huatulco Bay is 45 minutes’ drive away.
Hotel Posada San Jose is located just next to a bus station and 25 minutes’ drive from Huatulco International Airport. It features an outdoor swimming pool and a garden.
The rooms offer basic décor, a ceiling fan and cable TV. The bathroom is private and has a shower. Wake up service is available.
24-hour front desk and a tour desk are featured in Hotel Posada San Jose and ecotourism activities can be arranged by the hotel. The restaurant zone is located within 200 metres distance.
Puerto Ángel Beach and Puerto Escondido Beach are located 20-minute drive from the hotel. Huatulco Bay is 45 minutes’ drive away.
Hotel Rooms: 50
Grandparents’ Day marked at Casa del Abuelo
Grandparents’ Day marked at Casa del Abuelo
The mayor of Puerto Escondido, José Antonio Aragón Roldán, receives a blessing from a member of the Casa del Abuelo.Tony Richards | El Sol de la Costa
Grandparents’ Day was celebrated by grandparents of Puerto Escondido today at the Casa del Abuelo in Colonia Aeropuerto. While the day on which grandparents are officially recognized is August 28, the members and volunteers of this organization always meet on Sundays, so for the sake of convenience the event was celebrated today.
Among the visitors who attended to salute the seniors were Puerto Escondido Mayor José Antonio Aragón Roldán and his wife, María de Lourdes Rosette Cruz. They presented small gift bags to everyone present.
The event concluded with entertainment in the form of games and a meal prepared by women of the group in the organization’s kitchen. There they prepared handmade tortillas for quesadillas with squash flowers and cheese, and tacos with nopal and pico de gallo.
Among the visitors who attended to salute the seniors were Puerto Escondido Mayor José Antonio Aragón Roldán and his wife, María de Lourdes Rosette Cruz. They presented small gift bags to everyone present.
The event concluded with entertainment in the form of games and a meal prepared by women of the group in the organization’s kitchen. There they prepared handmade tortillas for quesadillas with squash flowers and cheese, and tacos with nopal and pico de gallo.
Monday, September 3, 2012
Tortillas – The Real Deal
Tortillas – The Real Deal
Half a dozen doors up the street is a thriving corn mashing business.
You probably thought I was talking about some moonshine facility right here in Poor Man’s Shangri La – you would be wrong. This corn is mashed into masa de maíz dough for tortillas and the like.
Fresh grilled tortillas are not unique to Mexico but they are ubiquitous here. And you will never find authentic tortillas north of the border – I do not believe.
Oh there are some reasonable tortilla makers north of the border – Rick Bayless’ restaurants make some pretty authentic Mexican food. And you can buy some pretty fine machine assisted tortillas (read about that here). But there are some situations where charm and tradition quite mysteriously influence the outcome.
Tortillas coming off hot comals resting over wood fired stone stoves – flat bread dough that has been squeezed and then lovingly pounded with the heel of the palm of a brown skinned hand, cast on the grill with ballet like hand and arm gestures; then spun and turned with calloused finger tips until golden – well it just does not get any better than that.
Scattered around the Hood this morning are ladies who before dawn walked to that corn grinding outfit up the road; many with a pastel colored bucket brimming with soaked corn kernels. There they wait in line as a hombre takes their kernels, depositing them in a shoot that delivers them to spinning grind wheels. Out the other end plop clumps of dough. The sleepy eyed patrons are quiet as he goes about his work.
Or if you are like us, for five pesos one can just buy a kilo dough ball ground from their corn.
Meanwhile back at their casa perhaps a daughter or sister has been preparing the wood fire.
In a short time a basket will start filling with warm scrumptious tortillas kept warm beneath a thin cloth dish towel. Often the warm tortillas do not make it to the basket. A hombre or nino interrupts its path flipping the almost too hot to handle little torta from one hand to the other quickly to keep any one hand from absorbing too much heat.
Flipping Tortillas
Those interrupted issues will probably be rolled up and ingested while sucking air to help cool down the mouth at entry. The warmth and wafting aroma will take the chill off the morning as the first few bites travel down to heat the belly. I mean to tell you right here – it just does not get any better than that.
After the immediacy of fresh tortillas has been satiated, more will be removed from underneath the now steaming cloth; to be filled with a dollop or two of beans or a sliver of cheese and a piece of a pepper. Perhaps the tortilla will envelop some eggs and chorizo.
Many adept hombres will tear a triangular part of a tortilla that will be formed into a spoon-like edible utensil to scoop up their sopa – no silverware required here at desayuno (breakfast). It is all good and has been being done for mucho generations.
The tortilla is ingrained in the Mexican experience. You have to be here. It is as simple and as complex as that. Stay Tuned!
Vacationing in Puerto Escondido: What can go wrong will
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Puerto Escondido - Awesome spot to learn to surf and beautiful area. Suggestions upon arrival - 1. Make sure your bus arrives during open hostel or hotel hours ...
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Puerto Escondido - Awesome spot to learn to surf and beautiful area. Suggestions upon arrival - 1. Make sure your bus arrives during open hostel or hotel hours ...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Vacationing in Puerto Escondido: What can go wrong will
Puerto Escondido -
Awesome spot to learn to surf and beautiful area.
Suggestions upon arrival -
1. Make sure your bus arrives during open hostel or hotel hours
For a vacation two other girls and I decided it would be fun to go to Puerto Escondido. However, one was going to be in Mexico city at the start of the trip so we made a meeting point in Oaxaca - (Also another beautiful city to visit in Mexico if you have the chance CHOCOLATE center of Mexico), My friend and I got there a few days early and stayed at the Casa Angel Youth Hostel (very good hostel and highly recommended) We wanted to get to Puerto Escondido as early as possible so that we could hit the beach, so as soon as our other friend arrived we took a smaller bus out at 7pm to get to Puerto Escondido. Wellll.... it is about a 6 hour drive because of all the switchbacks in the mountains. Annnddd then it started raining... thus we arrived in Puerto Escondido at 3 am. So we found out 4 things when we arrived
1. It was hard to catch a cab
2. The hostel (cause we wanted to be cheap) that we wanted to get to stay at was full and reception was closed
3. We ended up sleeping in plastic chairs... (me giving up and taking my towel out to sleep on the sand)
4. There were Mosquitos... lots of mosquitos
so try to arrive during daylight hours
So next suggestion
2. BRING MOSQUITO REPELLANT - or you WILL be eaten alive
3. Unless you are in a 4 star hotel there is not air conditioners... It is very hot and sticky even at night. So try to stick it out or pay 700 pesos for air conditioning. It is possible for a cheap stay at a hostel just be prepared for the heat.
4. If you want good swimming and/or surfing Carcizalillo Cove is the one to go to. Pack light because it is a long way down the stairs. - There are lunch and surf shops down there. (The waves are really good for beginners as well as more advanced surfers.)
5. For surfers, stick to the center main surf shop beginners especially... please.
Last day I went to that beach I wasn't quite sure if I was going to surf so I swam for a little while then reconsidered and went to go rent for an hour. However, they had just given the last rentals to some people taking surfing lessons, they sent me to the other side of the beach where there was another shop. They charged 10 pesos more for an hour making it 80 but I just wanted to surf so I gave them 100 to get the change back on my and the boards "safe" return. I'm still a bit of a beginner but I didn't see any problems.
10 minutes after getting in the water and swimming out a large wave crashes over me and the board is drug from my hands, thus pulls my ankle for a while. Well whatever floats usually comes back up... Only problem was that it was in two pieces. (An oh f#ck moment) this leads to suggestion number 6
6. Be careful with a broken surfboard the plastic will cut you but try to be quick about it. The longer it takes for you to get back in, the harder it is to not get overly smashed by waves and cut up in the process of not losing it . Oh and don't use a Styrofoam surfboard w only one rod of wood that supports the back wrapped in plastic.
However, you have to drag it back in to return it, this took me quite a while in the last 10 feet because 1. the board was in two and 2. There is a swell until the last 2 feet of the water meeting the beach where you can not touch. yay me...
7. When returning the board DO NOT agree to the first price that the vendors ask you to pay. Mine asked for 500 pesos which I honestly did not have...
I basically ended up paying an extra 100 pesos to pay for the broken board.
8. You can surprisingly find a friend when you get into this kind of situation
Some Mexican women had seen my plight and offered to help me with talking to the vendors about the price. (I was at that point crying my eyes out in frustration) And then offered me a beer and some cocoanut to help me calm down. For this I am eternally greatful to them. We then talked for a while and exchanged names so we could find each other on facebook, with the offer to come visit any time.
9. Do not leave any of your stuff you do not want to get went on the sand.
The waves literally come up to the restaurant tables, I had left my towel and stuff at the highest point of the beach so that I could lie on my towel if I wanted to. Bad plan... Water completely washed up all my stuff which included my phone. (Luckily for me it was off and I bought a bag of rice to put it in. It still works though now tends to malfunction on a few things)
10. Make sure to buy your bus tickets ahead of time when you are heading back.
This way you don't have to wait a few hours because all the early buses have filled up.
Overall the trip was great, just had some amusing (though not amusing at the time) crappy moments. You can't prepare for all of the things that will happen on trips in Mexico but hopefully this list can help you prepare at least a little more. :)
Awesome spot to learn to surf and beautiful area.
Suggestions upon arrival -
1. Make sure your bus arrives during open hostel or hotel hours
For a vacation two other girls and I decided it would be fun to go to Puerto Escondido. However, one was going to be in Mexico city at the start of the trip so we made a meeting point in Oaxaca - (Also another beautiful city to visit in Mexico if you have the chance CHOCOLATE center of Mexico), My friend and I got there a few days early and stayed at the Casa Angel Youth Hostel (very good hostel and highly recommended) We wanted to get to Puerto Escondido as early as possible so that we could hit the beach, so as soon as our other friend arrived we took a smaller bus out at 7pm to get to Puerto Escondido. Wellll.... it is about a 6 hour drive because of all the switchbacks in the mountains. Annnddd then it started raining... thus we arrived in Puerto Escondido at 3 am. So we found out 4 things when we arrived
1. It was hard to catch a cab
2. The hostel (cause we wanted to be cheap) that we wanted to get to stay at was full and reception was closed
3. We ended up sleeping in plastic chairs... (me giving up and taking my towel out to sleep on the sand)
4. There were Mosquitos... lots of mosquitos
so try to arrive during daylight hours
So next suggestion
2. BRING MOSQUITO REPELLANT - or you WILL be eaten alive
3. Unless you are in a 4 star hotel there is not air conditioners... It is very hot and sticky even at night. So try to stick it out or pay 700 pesos for air conditioning. It is possible for a cheap stay at a hostel just be prepared for the heat.
4. If you want good swimming and/or surfing Carcizalillo Cove is the one to go to. Pack light because it is a long way down the stairs. - There are lunch and surf shops down there. (The waves are really good for beginners as well as more advanced surfers.)
5. For surfers, stick to the center main surf shop beginners especially... please.
Last day I went to that beach I wasn't quite sure if I was going to surf so I swam for a little while then reconsidered and went to go rent for an hour. However, they had just given the last rentals to some people taking surfing lessons, they sent me to the other side of the beach where there was another shop. They charged 10 pesos more for an hour making it 80 but I just wanted to surf so I gave them 100 to get the change back on my and the boards "safe" return. I'm still a bit of a beginner but I didn't see any problems.
10 minutes after getting in the water and swimming out a large wave crashes over me and the board is drug from my hands, thus pulls my ankle for a while. Well whatever floats usually comes back up... Only problem was that it was in two pieces. (An oh f#ck moment) this leads to suggestion number 6
6. Be careful with a broken surfboard the plastic will cut you but try to be quick about it. The longer it takes for you to get back in, the harder it is to not get overly smashed by waves and cut up in the process of not losing it . Oh and don't use a Styrofoam surfboard w only one rod of wood that supports the back wrapped in plastic.
However, you have to drag it back in to return it, this took me quite a while in the last 10 feet because 1. the board was in two and 2. There is a swell until the last 2 feet of the water meeting the beach where you can not touch. yay me...
7. When returning the board DO NOT agree to the first price that the vendors ask you to pay. Mine asked for 500 pesos which I honestly did not have...
I basically ended up paying an extra 100 pesos to pay for the broken board.
8. You can surprisingly find a friend when you get into this kind of situation
Some Mexican women had seen my plight and offered to help me with talking to the vendors about the price. (I was at that point crying my eyes out in frustration) And then offered me a beer and some cocoanut to help me calm down. For this I am eternally greatful to them. We then talked for a while and exchanged names so we could find each other on facebook, with the offer to come visit any time.
9. Do not leave any of your stuff you do not want to get went on the sand.
The waves literally come up to the restaurant tables, I had left my towel and stuff at the highest point of the beach so that I could lie on my towel if I wanted to. Bad plan... Water completely washed up all my stuff which included my phone. (Luckily for me it was off and I bought a bag of rice to put it in. It still works though now tends to malfunction on a few things)
10. Make sure to buy your bus tickets ahead of time when you are heading back.
This way you don't have to wait a few hours because all the early buses have filled up.
Overall the trip was great, just had some amusing (though not amusing at the time) crappy moments. You can't prepare for all of the things that will happen on trips in Mexico but hopefully this list can help you prepare at least a little more. :)
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