I stopped by the Palace Municipal and checked on the impound auction. They think they'll have it together by the 16th. . . . . maybe. All the motor scooters are from collisions. In Mexico, all vehicles are impounded from a collision until all the damages are paid. No pay, no car, or scooter. The other path to the impound lot is 'infractions'. There will be some infraction cars in the sale but only collision scooters so I'm loosing interest.
There is a customizing procedure used on cars called 'Chopping the top'. It involves chopping a section out of all the window pillars to lower the top. It began with the older cars that had a sort of a derby hat profile and was pretty straight forward. As the later cars became more streamlined the procedure became way more complex because the top panel and it's window pillar stubs quickly became located too short and narrow to match up with the body stubs. You either bent the pillar stubs of the body inward to match up, as with the early 50's Mercurys or you lengthened the top as with the VW Beetles. Here is a local Beetle that's been chopped an inch or two and the top length was increased, in a well concealed way, by making a back hatch out of the rear window. This explanation falls well short of the complexity of what was done. A work in progress.
I have a neighbor who keeps some turkeys on her place. They are quite shy. Today they were on the side of the walled yard next to the sidewalk and I tried a gobble call my friends from Ithica showed me and I'll be darned if they didn't start answering and come over my way. The small flock's population didn't seem to change over the holidays so I guess they're mostly pets.
A couple who are regular winter visitors here were coming down on passes from an airline friend this year. The airlines hate to give up a paying passenger seat at the last minute so the passes are 'standby' only. To celebrate their arrival on vacation they had packed a couple frozen stakes in a plastic bag in one of their suitcases. And their flight was overbooked by 30 seats ! They were assured their bags would catch up with them. . . . . . and they did, one week later. Of course the plastic bags burst from the biology. The stains are proving harder to launder out than the smell.
I got in another short dive on the Atlantida Reef. Kind of slim pickings this trip. This Trumpet fish became fascinated with their reflection in the camera lens.
I couldn't believe I'd found a canon until I got close enough to see it was a concrete decoration.
During this tour of the place I spotted a corroding 'come-along' and took a minute to salvage it.
On the way ashore I swam through the cultured pearl farm and took a closer look.
A bollard is the post on a pier that ships tie up to. Here is one at sunset.
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