Where to stay while diving with Aldora - top spots are full

[Trailboss123]

I liked Mary Carmen the two times I stayed there better then Suites Colonial and Bahia.

Good to know-- What about Mary Carmen recommends it more vs. Suites Colonial?

 

[ggunn]

Oh, I mentioned the begging turtles, but failed to warn you about the pigeons. Mary Carmen's offers an optional breakfast for $6/day, the the little lady does a nice job offering different choices - not as lavish as at Mexicana, but plenty of good food, cold cereals, juices, etc. Her English is as bad as my Spanish so we both made sounds and pointed, but that usually worked. One morning I did get her to fry me three eggs, but she had to call in a translator.

Take all of your food together to your table on the outside patio tho, as those flying rats are watching. If you go back for more coffee or seconds, whatever you left on the table will be lost.

Just like grackles around here.

 

[DandyDon]

Just like grackles around here.

Grackles can certainly be irritating, mostly with their noises & deposits - in Texas & Cozumel as well, but I have never seen any attack an outdoor table in the time it takes me to get a bowl of cereal. There, I learned to finish my plate before I got up as those varmints are terrible.

 

[El Graduado]

Irritating? Noises & deposits? You tryin' to pick a fight??

 

[ggunn]

Grackles can certainly be irritating, mostly with their noises & deposits - in Texas & Cozumel as well, but I have never seen any attack an outdoor table in the time it takes me to get a bowl of cereal. There, I learned to finish my plate before I got up as those varmints are terrible.

There are places around Austin where grackles will scavenge your table if you leave it.

 

[DandyDon]

There are places around Austin where grackles will scavenge your table if you leave it.

I guess your local flocks are used to your cafes with outdoor tables. Offhand I can't think of any places like that around here that has those, so I guess our populations aren't used to those opportunities. Now camping, around here or there, I have been known to take my plate downwind of a campfire and eat in the smoke to avoid flies!

I've seen plenty of grackles on the island and eat outdoors enough there, but the tables, diners, and waiters are busy enough to scare those off I guess. Maybe the Mary Carmen pigeons are reacting to lower people traffic?

 

[ggunn]

I guess your local flocks are used to your cafes with outdoor tables.

Yes, just like the pigeons you are talking about. The most brazen I have seen were at the Oasis (an outdoor bar and grill on the cliffs overlooking Lake Travis) and the outdoor tables around the student union on the UT campus. Sometimes they will alight on your table while you are still sitting there.

 

[DandyDon]

Sometimes they will alight on your table while you are still sitting there.

I guess shooting with BB pistols is frowned on.

 

[El Graduado]

A .410 makes a bigger splash.

 

[ggunn]

And there are legal parking spots on the UT campus where you do not want to park your car when the grackles are migrating through town. You don't want to even walk by on the sidewalk under a grackle tree, especially if it's been raining.

It's weird; although there are hundreds of trees on campus that all look pretty much alike to me, there are a select few that the grackles pick to land in by the hundreds, and it's the same trees every time they come through.