Packoderm - 10-21-2006 at 07:46 PM
I've been wondering about the place - about what the camp atmosphere is like, about which waterfront cabins are leased and how much the leases are and
stuff like that.
L.A. Bay
Bedman - 10-22-2006 at 12:38 AM
Hello Pack....
Gecko is pretty quiet without all the Weekend campers. Of course my place is off the water 100 yards or so and very quiet back there. Sunsets come
and go as they always have. There are a few full timers and a few 1/2 year people. and then us people that plan to spend several prime months a year
there.
I think Abraham has a few water front lots left. He has demolished #'s 5,6 and 7 (I might be totally wrong on the #'s) the three water front cabins to
the South of the boat ramp.
I also heard that one of the Second row (lots just behind the water front places to the North of the boat ramp) was for sale/sublease. They just built
it and it has a nice cover for an almost New 5th wheel. I think $50,000 was tossed around, of course that $$ includes the 5th wheel (Nice one and
looks new)
I do belive that the Communnal bathrooms/showers will soon be a thing of the past.
Beach Bob is still there and he has some new neighbors to his immediate North. Michael, Virginia and their baby girl. Sammy and Andy have the lease on
the last cabin on the beach (to the South) and they're working hard to get it to their specifications.
Bedman
Packoderm - 10-22-2006 at 12:45 PM
Thank you Bedman. I won't be heading that way at all this year. We're going to the Yucatan instead. The airfare was so low that we just couldn't
resist. I wish I could do just as you are doing and make a second home at Camp Gecko. Maybe after two more years when I get my teaching credential
I'll have the time for that sort of thing - during the summer at least.
Cypress - 10-22-2006 at 01:55 PM
BOLA is on my list of places to visit.
Packoderm - 10-22-2006 at 03:00 PM
For one week, have reservations at Cabana La Luna in Tulum. http://www.findrentals.com/17098.html If you click on one of the photos, you'll start a slide show. After that, we're staying at the cheap cabanas
closest to the Tulum ruins. After that, then Isla Holbox. http://www.mawimbi.net/english.htm Then an all inclusive in Cancun for 2 nights before flying back home. I'm looking forward to it.
aha baja - 10-22-2006 at 03:21 PM
My wife and I honeymooned in the Yucitan in1985 and went back in 1990. We didn't spend too much time in Cancun....just too busy- touristy.We rented a
bug and drove inland to villadolide, chitsanitza(sp)merida,uxmal coba, tulum xelha and xcaret It's an amazing part of the world, much more tropical
and lush the Bigger towns (Villadolide)and Merida are very colonial in architecture almost european. They don't have rivers or lakes because the whole
peninsula is a limestone shelf. Rivers of water flow clear and cool underground and when the land is erroded enough under the limestone it will cave
in and become a kind of sink hole lake known as a cenote. Mayans would sacrafice victims to the gods in ritualistic cerimonies then toss them into the
cenotes along with gold and jade treasures. At the time we were there it seemed like the entire Yucitan was an archiological "dig" with artifacts
being unearthed right before our eyes! It will astound you as to the diversity of culture... old and new.Bring a good camera and snorkel gear if you
dive.Its wild!
[Edited on 01-19-2004 by aha baja]