Access to Tenacatita beach reopened
I would say that the free beach would now be accessible because it in the ejito http://www.theguadalajarareporter.com/news/news/pacific-coast/42192-access-reopens-to-disputed-tenacatita-beach
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Yes, there was going to be more to the story, if you believed Villalobos' plan. He would build a grand resort hotel and have a golf course nearby. And yes, that sort of thing does happens in U.S.A. and Canada. With one exception: most folks don't squat on other people's property, they make deals for it to the satisfaction of the present owners. Simply because somebody has friends in high places, such as the former governor of Jalisco, runs a real estate company and a security company, purports to have a bill of sale from a widow, makes it okay to evict dozens of people off their properties at gunpoint, with the backing of 50 state police in full riot gear with automatic weaponry? There were shootings on that early morning, done in the heat of August no doubt to limit the amount of gringo involvement. Is that really how resorts are built in Mexico? Somebody has been making some serious mistakes.
The area saw about 150 RV's visit each winter. The beach was popular, I once counted over 50 private buses parked one day. Each Christmas one area of the beach would be populated by families in tents, from Mexico City; another area saw a 60 -member family from Guadalajara stay. Some of the vendors were the same folks we would see in Melaque, others we knew actually had shops in Barra de Navidad. Others, as Chris said, did sell goods and services to RV'ers, the purified water, beer, fresh baked goods, vegetables and fruit, Hugo, the all-important laundry man, and more. Our friend Ray brought snorklers visiting Melaque out to the coral beach, and to boogie board at Bocca, and sometimes to bird watch near the estero south of El Rebelsito. He still makes a living doing ATV tours, but to the south of Malaque. There were small hotels, eight or ten palapa restaurants, usually with their famous rollodemar dish headling the menus. Some private residences had been built, at least one with a swimming pool. The condition of these properties, if they were spared the bulldozer, must be grim after three years without the upkeep they would need in the environment there. I talked to a man two years ago in Parker, Arizona, whose son had just lost the 250,000 dollars he'd put into Tenacatita, and was at that time, broke.
There is a rather common "Virus" going around in that stretch of the Mexican coast, and that is the trend to only gated access to any and almost every beach. Things are becoming very exclusive, even if just wanting to spend a few hours at a beach. All this to the exclusion of most Mexicans. At least they will again have the sands of Tenacatita.
The area saw about 150 RV's visit each winter. The beach was popular, I once counted over 50 private buses parked one day. Each Christmas one area of the beach would be populated by families in tents, from Mexico City; another area saw a 60 -member family from Guadalajara stay. Some of the vendors were the same folks we would see in Melaque, others we knew actually had shops in Barra de Navidad. Others, as Chris said, did sell goods and services to RV'ers, the purified water, beer, fresh baked goods, vegetables and fruit, Hugo, the all-important laundry man, and more. Our friend Ray brought snorklers visiting Melaque out to the coral beach, and to boogie board at Bocca, and sometimes to bird watch near the estero south of El Rebelsito. He still makes a living doing ATV tours, but to the south of Malaque. There were small hotels, eight or ten palapa restaurants, usually with their famous rollodemar dish headling the menus. Some private residences had been built, at least one with a swimming pool. The condition of these properties, if they were spared the bulldozer, must be grim after three years without the upkeep they would need in the environment there. I talked to a man two years ago in Parker, Arizona, whose son had just lost the 250,000 dollars he'd put into Tenacatita, and was at that time, broke.
There is a rather common "Virus" going around in that stretch of the Mexican coast, and that is the trend to only gated access to any and almost every beach. Things are becoming very exclusive, even if just wanting to spend a few hours at a beach. All this to the exclusion of most Mexicans. At least they will again have the sands of Tenacatita.
