Can I just say ...
Seeing as we brought it up, Ensenada is a stankhole of the worst kind, it is a rat infested putrid place - It has plenty of oil drums for waste disposal which were all empty when we went there - the beach on the other hand was covered. Did I mention the used needles? Did I mention the turds? Did I mention the used feminine towels? Did I mention the dead rats? Do not under any circumstances go there and let your children play on the beach. It was always our intention to go back with an underwater camera to prove what I saw when I swam - just to say it again - the sea is literally heaving with empty plastic cups and human excrement. I haven't had the need to return there yet (I doubt if it will be for many years if I can help it). The quick answer? Simple - There is a Pepsi advert painted onto one of the rocks in the bay. It is THE most detrimental advert on the entire planet. Again, I missed the photo oportunity so, whoever has the mis-fortune of going there first take a snap and send it to the advertising people at Pepsi. I think they'll get the message. Get them to put their hands in their pockets and do something. Maybe, just maybe then people will realise it is in everyone's interest to keep the place tidy.
By the way - Manatee's? Don't make me laugh! There is a tourist office for manatee watcher's and on two seperate occassions we have been and both times there was nobody there but a guard. There are no boats to take you out - nothing. It is sponsored by the EU who apparently send money to run the place. I doubt if there's been a manatee dumb enough to swim there in years but if the EU keeps paying I guess they just keep the money and tell people like us to go away and come back tomorrow - when there will still be nobody there.
Sorry to be so blunt but when we left there everyone in the car was close to tears. It is a sad and sorry place.
Simon
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