Caleta de Campos

This is quickly becoming a favorite spot! We spent two nights at Caleta de Campos on our way north from Zihuatanejo. Just after breakfast, a panga circled the boat, filled with school-children and their teacher (a marine science class). We exchanged “good mornings” and, when we invited them aboard, they declined, saying they had to get back to classes. The surf was high, but it was too tantalizing to resist the draw to visit the school. So Ardy swam into shore (dry clothes in a plastic bag held high) and found her way to the school where she talked with the Administrative Assistant and later joined an English class for a few minutes, answering questions about travel on the sea, our life as sailors. The students were articulate, welcoming, and curious--had excellent questions.








One of the special gifts we received from Caleta was meeting the public health nurses. They were engaged in their regular work of mosquito control—identifying and eradicating sources of mosquito habitat that could contribute to dengue fever. As with all public health nurses we have met in Mexico, they are on a mission. Truly dedicated to their work, they go door-to-door, surveying habitat, administering “citations” to clean up areas that are potential problems, reviewing previous areas…are things improved from the last visit? These nurses are located in a large town south of Caleta, Lazaro Cardenas, and they have a “circuit,” traveling to a number of small towns along the coast, visiting each town every two or three months to assess the situation…going door-to-door. It is very labor intensive, and, for us without recourse to statistics on the incidence of dengue fever, hard to determine how effective. Their effort is admirable.