Our timing was not the best!

Yesterday turned out better than had been forecast. The morning actually had some sunny breaks! It really should have been the time when we could have gone on the boat tour, but more people seemed interested in the waterfalls so we made a plan to get four taxis to take 16 of us to see them.

But first, I had a fridge problem to fix.

I had turned our fridge off overnight the night before to melt the ice that had formed on the cooling unit. When it's really humid like it is now, I find that it builds up fairly quickly. Anyhow, I went to turn it on yesterday morning, and the burner would light, and then shut down.

We had a lot of rain overnight, and I thought maybe the electronic board had become damp. So I had a look in the back of the fridge, and it was pretty wet in there, but it was because the drain tank for the melting ice from the cooling unit had actually overflowed.

I fired it up again, and watched the flame. It was fine, but the flame sensor seemed too close to the burner. I got a screwdriver and bent it up 1/8" or so. Fired it up again, and everything worked fine. It doesn't make sense that it was working fine the night before, but not in the morning. And the problem wasn't related to moisture at all. Anyhow, everything is working properly once again.

We made arrangements for the four taxis to come at 1:00pm. They had quoted 150 pesos ($10 CAD, $8.25 USD) per taxi to take us the 15 kms (9 miles) one way to the waterfall. Then, the plan was to take the local bus back to Sihuapan to a cigar making factory for a tour, and then flag some more taxis (they are everywhere!) back to the RV Park.

When we arrived, the taxis asked if we wanted them to wait. No, we had explained we wanted to take the local bus. We had a hard time understanding him, but eventually figured out that the bus doesn't run on Saturdays. He said that for 200 pesos per taxi, they would wait for us at the waterfall, take us back to the cigar factory, and then back to the RV Park. Okay. Good deal.

We made it to the waterfalls just as the clouds were coming in. First stop was the mirador (lookout) at the top of the falls...

With all the rain they've had here recently, there is lots of water going over!

Then, as we started walking to the stairs to get to the base of the falls, it started to rain! Eventually, there wasn't much point in waiting and twelve of us started down the 244 steps. Really spectacular at the bottom, but tough to get photos without the lens of the camera getting wet!

The best photo I got was from under a little palapa shelter.

We made our way back up the 244 steps. One of our group is 78 years old and he was the first one up the steps! Yes, he did leave before everyone else... but still! At the top of the steps, what happened?

It stopped raining.

Our timing was not the best! Oh well. Everybody seemed to enjoy themselves anyhow.

The taxis then took us to the cigar factory, but it turns out our timing wasn't the best on that either. It closes at 1:00pm on Saturdays! There are no smokers in our group of 24 people, which is kind of amazing, isn't it? Anyhow, most people were not that interested in the cigar factory to begin with, but we've been and it really is interesting. We'll try and time things better for next year.

This morning looks better than forecast as well... we have plans to go down to the docks at 10:00am and do a two hour boat tour.

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