Our route takes us north towards Rio Lagartos next day passing through quiet villages on our way.
After checking out a a couple of hotels, We settle for a neat, modern place with balcony right on the waters edge run by Fidel, a friendly Colombian who speaks no English but his Spanish is much easier to understand than the Mexican Spanish all around us. From our balcony we can see lots of pelicans fishing and further out, ospreys diving from a great height and taking off with silvery fish sparkling in the sunlight as they wriggle in vain to escape.
The persistent independent tour guides who pounced on us when we drove in to town have eventually given up on us. They are eager to get us on one of their boats to go and see flamingos but we've heard that there are not so many here at this time of year and nothing we see will surpass our trip at Celestun. Next day we take a drive out to the nearby fishing villages of Las Colaradas and San Felipe. On route we take a short walk through the forest to a cenote with sign in Spanish warning not to swim because of crocodiles! Many of the trees are bare of leaves as its the dry season.

Las Coloradas has an amazing pink lagoon and salt production on an industrial scale. We have a delicious seafood lunch here in a weathered old shed like place on the edge of the sandy street. After lunch we have a visit to the beach then on route back, we stop off to visit a cemetery, all very bright and as colourful as a fairground. We head out at night for another delicious coconut prawn meal....even more yummy than last night's one. It's not been a wasted day although we didn't get to see ANY flamingos when driving along the edge of the lagoon . The waterfront goes very quiet by 7 in the evening....all tourists having left for the day or in their hotels already.