"un mar de sueños y fantasías" carnaval 2010

after the disastrous tourism season of last year, peñasco is on a mission to bring people back down here. the good thing about this, is that the government is really doing a lot to bring of events, particularly cultural things, to the area.

on of these is a carnaval celebration - five days of carnival games, concerts, parades etc. etc.

CEDO participated in all of the parades - hanging our 30th anniversary banners from the panga and dressing up all the kids from the ecology club like sea creatures ...



[the CEDO panga]


[jelly/medusa]


[shark/tiburon]


[alan, the new ecotourism intern, as a scorpion fish]


of course the entire point of all of this is to dance through the streets ...



[orcas and sharks dancing in the panga]




being in the parade, it's a bit difficult to actually see the parade. i remember this from high school and college even ... so before the parade got started, i wandered around to check out the different floats. to be perfectly honest, i was pretty impressed with peñasco and the quality of the parade efforts ... my expectations were pretty low, but there were some cool things done ..



[main, leading float]






and then, just behind us, were people dressed as gooey ducks, or the panopea spp clam, one of the fisheries we work with here at CEDO. google image search it, and you'll see why it's so funny. these guys kinda just looked like weird tacos





and i was a nudibranch, a mexican dancer ... and ivan a shark (he stole his mask from someone else)





in the evenings, were the carnival games and concerts. fun to go and people watch and wander around.