Mexico Part 2, Beach Walks

One afternoon we were walking along the beach in Las Conchas near our hotel, and we came across someone with his car stuck in the sand. I do not know why the guy thought he would be able to drive in that deep, soft sand. Too much YouTube and not enough real life, I guess.

He had apparently been stuck for awhile. We were told they had tried to winch him out with no success. In the end, they got him out with a big backhoe. We got there just in time for the grand finale.

Los Conchas is basically just a strip of expensive homes and small hotels and airbnb rentals that stretches eastward along the coast from Puerto Peñasco. Storms have taken their toll, so there are sections of extensive damage alongside multi-million dollar homes.

If you don’t have a seawall, your property will wash away.

Sometimes your property washes away even when you do have a seawall.

This landowner is determined. The volume of cement is astounding when standing at the bottom of it looking up.

Now this is just weird. A red cement carpet to welcome in the seawater?

It looks like a big dragon’s tongue issuing from that huge house. I suppose it’s a boat ramp. And I suppose it is legal?

Just down the beach, this vacant lot is for sale for $849,500 (US dollars).

It has a small seawall, next to a ruined property with no seawall. In the flyer for the sale of the neighboring lot, you can see the large house that used to be where that rubble is now.

If you look closely in the right-hand photo in the flyer below, you can see the beige 2-story stucco house to the left of the lot for sale. You can also see it on the right in the left-hand photo, facing the beach. That house is gone now. There’s nothing left but some steel and concrete.

I don’t know when the pictures for the flyer were taken, but if I was that agent, I’d retake those pictures. Nothing like advertising what happens to those big, beautiful houses built on that beach. Unless she’s expecting someone to buy it sight-unseen. In which case, yes, old photos showing mansions on both sides is probably good advertising.

Despite what the ad is claiming, that simple, smooth, 16′ seawall is not a good seawall. The good ones have a lot more articulation to dissipate the wave energy. And 16′ isn’t remotely high enough.

Here’s some larger walls with better articulation:

And even better than that, here is the satisfied look of a man who knows not to drive a sedan in the sand, and does NOT own beachfront property in Mexico.

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