What will Canadians fo this fall/winter

For us, it's always been all about the ocean. When not traveling, we lived on a Southern California beach with cold water.

Here, we hit the beach with our two weimaraners at 6am because dogs aren't allowed on the beach. We walk the whole beach both ways, the return trip with them being loose playing ball and swimming. Back home about 7, then we grab our SUP's and paddle. Then we leave them on the beach and swim a couple of kilometers. By then it's 9:30 ish and if we don't do anything else all day, it's OK. We are all exercised and exhausted, and so happy from seeing wonderful things in our warm water.

Yesterday I swam over two groups, one of 4 and one of 5 of golden cownose rays, each about a meter across. Absolutely beautiful. When we were paddling we saw two large turtles swimming along.

Southern Mexico has toasty warm water that is often very clear and has lots of beautiful things to see. We even have seahorses!!

Talleyho69 wrote:
So, be careful if you come to check this area out, you may stay forever! BYW, the ocean temp this morning was 93.

LOL

....that's my kind of water temperature!

Most of my time in Mexico had been spent in the Campeche, Merida, Villahermosa, Tuxtla/San Cristobal dLC/Ocosingo/Comitan, and DF areas. But I have caught some of the Puerto Arista coastal area.

....on edit: I checked the La Ropa beach cam at 11:40 AM today, and there seemed to be less people on it compared with yesterday. But that beach looks incredible. Great sand, nice clear water. Very calm, few waves, super for a swim.

We spent a number of months every year traveling in Mexico, starting in 1983 in a tent with just two weeks. In 2009 friends who lived in Ajijic suggested that we meet up here then head to Palenque. We finally made Palenque, not wanting to leave Playa la Ropa. Then, every winter we spent a long as we could here, finally 6 months at a time, and realized that we really really didn't want to leave.
In 2017 we bought a house and in 2018 moved down permanently and haven't been back to the US.
So, be careful if you come to check this area out, you may stay forever!
BYW, the ocean temp this morning was 93.

Talleyho69 wrote:
Ah, you can see our paradise!

Yes! It is quite stunning, actually. You are in a SUPERB area, no doubt about it. This is one part of Mexico I have yet to see, and will see at some point.

Ah, you can see our paradise!

Talleyho69 wrote:
The weather station in our back yard can be accessed through Weather Underground, but more easily by going to weatherlink.com. Register, and look for Casa 4 Vientos. That will hook you into us, it's all free.

Nice.

I found 6 weather-web cams also; all stationed around Bahia de Zihuatanejo (2 right at the Playa La Ropa); one cam at La Ropa is so super high resolution, I can just about make out the faces of several bathers on the beach.

Talleyho69 wrote:
Here in Zihuatanejo, the morning humidity is almost always 96%. During rainy season, mid day is usually 82%, during the dry season mid day is usually 75%.

The weather station in our back yard can be accessed through Weather Underground, but more easily by going to weatherlink.com. Register, and look for Casa 4 Vientos. That will hook you into us, it's all free.

Cool. Thanks.

Here in Zihuatanejo, the morning humidity is almost always 96%. During rainy season, mid day is usually 82%, during the dry season mid day is usually 75%.

The weather station in our back yard can be accessed through Weather Underground, but more easily by going to weatherlink.com. Register, and look for Casa 4 Vientos. That will hook you into us, it's all free.

That is good news for those of us in the soggy NW. Maybe not so good for mexico once the dry season starts

A new study released today indicates that higher humidity climates decrease the virus transmission.
Empirical evidence suggests that this is so based on reports from areas such as SE Asia.
Study excerpt:

The role of climate during the COVID-19 epidemic in New South Wales, Australia wrote:
Every 1% increase in average relative humidity was predicted to decrease daily confirmed cases by
11%–22%, when average temperature was in the range of 5–8°C.

Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/tbed.13631