Barra

Barra de Navidad is built on a sandbar between Bahia de Navidad and the Laguna de Navidad. The Mexican translation is Christmas Sandbar, or I found The Bar of Christmas as another way of stating it. No matter how you say it Barra is a rwal cool little town. There are about 7000 people who live in Barra proper. It feel of this town is more tourist based. You look around and you mostly see gringos walking the streets and Mexicans selling in the stores. Melaque it is definitely dominated by Mexicans, both tourist and locals. You see you share of gringos, but you can feel that you are in a working community where tourism is holiday based.
We walked the beach to get to Barra passing the laguna and its lush greenery, birds and swamp creatures. Prior to the beach Linda and I had held court explaining about our entire first several days in this area. Every place we passed had a story relating to our discovery of the town of Melaque. It’s always fun to tell the tails of our adventurous times with Buz and Renie. The sun got higher as we neared Barra and the heat slowed the recanting of memories. On the sand at the top of the beach we passed a Boy Scout troop. They had three separate camps each consisting of different aged Boy Scouts. The younger scouts looked very tired, but they all had smiles.

We entered Barra from the beach and walked to the malecón and checked out the health fair that was set up there. There were several tents set up with Huichol Indian art and we checked each one out leisurely.