From Caledon to Huatulco

Caledon Butterflies in the Snow

On December 16th Bob and I fly to Huatulco in the state of Oaxaca where the foothills of the Sierra Madre del Sur Mountains meet the Pacific Ocean. Susan, Alan, Max and Kai arrive the next day and that is where we'll hang our Christmas stockings.

There are nine bays along the coast there each with their own ecosystem and interests. I’ll post photos every day or so and might include drawings this year too. For the first ten days we’re staying in the town of La Crucecita which sprang up as a tourist area after the 80s.

Huatulco had an early turbulent history. After the Spanish Conquest, it was a vantage point and distribution centre for Spanish galleons on the Pacific coast. Then in the last part of the 16th Century it was attacked by Francis Drake and Thomas Cavendish. 

Until resort development began in the 1980s, locals grew crops. There are still coffee plantations that we hope to visit. I'll send photos of the process. I visited a plantation in Honduras and the process is very labour intensive. Every time I sip a latte now I think of the pickers high up in buggy, humid mountains picking one bean at a time. Not for the faint of heart.

From Huatulco we travel by bus, a stupendous eight hours -- yikes -- to the city of Oaxaca for a week, then to Puebla and finally to Mexico City for the final few days of our Mexican month.

See you in Huatulco! 

PS  You can check out my most recent art work at  http://www.self-esteem-health.com/art-work.html