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| View from the Catalina Hotel |
Had a great breakfast at the Catalina Hotel overlooking Playa La Ropa. Apparently Playa La Ropa (Clothes Beach) got its name when a merchant ship sank off the bay and its cargo of silks and fabrics washed up on the beach.
Interesting story about the shipwreck, but easy to believe in light of all the sunken ship stories involved in open sea trade routes. Did a little research on Playa del Ropa, and it sounds like the ship sunk several centuries ago. "One of Cortés's captains discovered Zihuatanejo, whose name means 'land of women,' in 1524. Three years later, Spanish conquistadors launched a trade route from here to the Orient. The ships returned laden with silks and spices. It is said that British admiral George Anson and his crew planted the first coconut palms in the area in the 18th century, having brought the trees from the Philippines." History always makes me feel like a blip on the clock, a mere nanosecond in time. Nevertheless, I enjoy living at this end of the historical timeline, when we have the time/education/freedom/money/technology to look back through the centuries, and even to gaze cosmologically back through millenniums. Weather report: Raining like crazy! Creek is full of rapids.
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