Via Russ Black and Rocky Point 360's Facebook status posts (listed below), the new public beach that has been spoken about on here for the last few months has opened, just in time for the Semana Santa Mexican holiday. The entrance is apparently hard to find, but sounds like you take Fremont, go past the final streets on the right that will get you in the Mirador section (Nuevo Leon), but don't go as far as the Las Conchas entrance. It will be on your right (you know, the ocean side!), near the grey, steel, Interceramic tile supply building. If you make it down there, please post photos or reviews below. Thanks!
Russ--This is right off of Boulevard Freemont there are big signs that say Mi Playa. The palapas are too cool and there are cookers and everything it is cool!
Rocky Point 360--Public Beach Mi Playa is open, offering palapas and spots for pick-up beach soccer. Had to do a doube-take to find the entrance but it's right near Interceramic. A la playa!!!
Across from Oceano rentals, OK, that's what I thought, but Oceano lists their address as a side street or some other office. Here are the directions, but it sounds like the some of the signs are already up.
Until there is additional signage, to get to Mi Playa: when heading along Blvd. Fremont toward Las Conchas you will see a small ‘entrada’ sign just before InterCeramic (I had to circle back to find it the first time). When heading to town from Las Conchas, you will actually see a large Mi Playa sign on the right-side of the road just past Consign & Design, with an arrow pointing to a left turn. *Don’t drive up the “Solo Salida” road (exit only). Once at Mi Playa there are clear signs helping guide you back to the “Salida” (exit) down another short road that empties back out onto Blvd. Fremont just across from the Oceano offices.
I congratulate the city for this project--especially the speed in which they implemented it. Let's hope that they have budgeted for lots of cleanup. As property owners, our first visit to the Mirador area after Semana Santa always involves picking up garbage bags full of bottles, plastic bags, diapers, etc. from the Mirador beach to Los Conchas. Lately the beach from the Pithaya past the old Elegante RV park has been an informal "Mi Playa" area, and it gets to be a mess.
Went by Mi Playa beach today. Its a garbage dump, cans, bottles, garbage everywhere. I was scared to get out of the Jeep, might catch something.
You would think people would take care of things like that, but NO LETS JUST TRASH IT
Yes that is a very big problem down here in my opinion... many of the locals just don't appreciate the beauty of their own beaches... I have actually seen people standing next to a garbage can and they just drop their trash on the ground instead of walking two feet to dispose of it properly... It's just a sad sight...
Yes that is a very big problem down here in my opinion... many of the locals just don't appreciate the beauty of their own beaches... I have actually seen people standing next to a garbage can and they just drop their trash on the ground instead of walking two feet to dispose of it properly... It's just a sad sight...
All I can do is SMH, this is the same premise of putting 19 people on a boat. Uneducated or whatever you want to call it. Generation after generation behaves like this and therefor it becomes accepted or the norm of society. I was never taught that it was ok to litter, so once again is this a cultural problem or an education problem. Like I said before its basically acceptable to be a degenerate, drinking and driving with your kids in the car, be reckless with kids in the car, putting 19 people on a boat, littering, generally not giving 0 F$#KS about anything... its a shame. A year ago I met this guy in his mid 20's a national that lives in Cholla bay. I saw him picking up trash in cholla bay and it might have been the first time that I had ever seen a local picking up trash. I asked him why and told him that and he said its because he's from cholla bay and lives there and doesnt want it that way. Why dont more locals feel this sentiment?!
Went by Mi Playa beach today. Its a garbage dump, cans, bottles, garbage everywhere. I was scared to get out of the Jeep, might catch something.
You would think people would take care of things like that, but NO LETS JUST TRASH IT
Wait till after the weekend...it will look worse....just check out any of the beaches (except in front of the condos) after the weekend when the families come out....trash everywhere...baby diapers, broken beer bottles, etc. Is it so hard to drop stuff in garbage cans, especially when they are provided??? ....it's a damn shame....
All I can do is SMH, this is the same premise of putting 19 people on a boat. Uneducated or whatever you want to call it. Generation after generation behaves like this and therefor it becomes accepted or the norm of society. I was never taught that it was ok to litter, so once again is this a cultural problem or an education problem. Like I said before its basically acceptable to be a degenerate, drinking and driving with your kids in the car, be reckless with kids in the car, putting 19 people on a boat, littering, generally not giving 0 F$#KS about anything... its a shame. A year ago I met this guy in his mid 20's a national that lives in Cholla bay. I saw him picking up trash in cholla bay and it might have been the first time that I had ever seen a local picking up trash. I asked him why and told him that and he said its because he's from cholla bay and lives there and doesnt want it that way. Why dont more locals feel this sentiment?!
When we do food distribution in the barrio, we also hand out candy to the kids... one thing I like to tell the kids is pick up a piece of trash and you get the candy.. Hopefully they will associate rewards with keeping an area clean... I'm hoping again as they grow the reward will change from candy to taking pride in their clean barrio...
Something else that's really disturbing are fireworks... what goes up must come down... if you are here and going to shoot off fireworks on the beach pick up before you shoot it up... let's say if you have 10 rockets to launch, pick up 10 pieces of fireworks remnants before you light up the night sky... they're easy to to find on any beach during the day, but I'll bet after shooting them off, just about everyone will walk away and leave them at night....
i was in Acapulco years ago watching the cliff divers one Sunday from a perch near our classic hippie van...Some mexican nationals pull up and dump a bag of garbage in the divers landing zone...Hey I like to go to the land fill and throw crap out my window...it's just like old times...but Sonora needs a anti litter campaign
I can remember back 50 or so years ago in the US it was common for people to throw trash, bottles and etc. out their car windows. Then there was a big campaign against littering. Does anyone remember the Native American with the tears coming from his eyes after looking at the trash?
This is an email I received about 3 people that spent many hours collecting garbage from the Caborca highway into our subdivision in Playa Encanto. They didn’t even make a dent in so to say. Our guards keep Playa Encanto clean but the main road coming in is a different story.
We picked up 54 ......32 gallon size bags of Garbage off the road. Big Thanks to the Guards who threw those bags into the garbage truck and hauled them away. Also a BIG thanks to the guards who made us 3 signs for people to read along the road. Do not dump the trash!
Went by Mi Playa beach today. Its a garbage dump, cans, bottles, garbage everywhere. I was scared to get out of the Jeep, might catch something.
You would think people would take care of things like that, but NO LETS JUST TRASH IT
Wow, we were in Penasco on Friday, staying at El Mirador Village because it was just a one-night trip, and considered packing up and hauling down to Mi Playa. Glad we didn't. How sad. The beach was very clean in front of El Mirador, all the to the right down to Manny's, then to the left down past PDO. Ironic, that it's called MI PLAYA, the people's beach, so to speak, but the locals and nationals choose to sh*t on it already.
Went by Mi Playa beach today. Its a garbage dump, cans, bottles, garbage everywhere. I was scared to get out of the Jeep, might catch something.
You would think people would take care of things like that, but NO LETS JUST TRASH IT
I have noticed the same thing. There are a lot more Mexican nationals renting in Las Conchas. Last time we were there, it was unbelievable how they would come down to the beach in Las Conchas, set up their tents and canopys, hang out all day and then leave all their trash right there on the beach. One group that was there for 3 days kept coming back and leaving their beer bottles every day. On morning I went and picked up 20 plus bottles, diapers and trash just left on the beach.
What's the deal with these people? Is it a cultural thing? Does it not even register to them that they trash up everything? I watched a group of kids walking from a convenience store and as they walked and ate their candy bars, coke, etc, they would just throw their trash on the ground as they finished it. I just don't get it.
yet the same concerned people buy bottled water,drive suv's and crank up the ac...we are all killing the planet...some of us are just a bit more tidy while we are doing it. When i go to the dump in tucson I do like to roll the window down,light up a smoke,crack a beer,crank up the the classic rock and throw litter out the window ...it's enough to make an Indian cry...
Terry C said:
This is an email I received about 3 people that spent many hours collecting garbage from the Caborca highway into our subdivision in Playa Encanto. They didn’t even make a dent in so to say. Our guards keep Playa Encanto clean but the main road coming in is a different story.
We picked up 54 ......32 gallon size bags of Garbage off the road. Big Thanks to the Guards who threw those bags into the garbage truck and hauled them away. Also a BIG thanks to the guards who made us 3 signs for people to read along the road. Do not dump the trash!
... it is a status symbol. "Look, I am able to afford this consumption, (Trash to prove it) I already paid and will use it to the fullest, (AC) and someone else will have to clean up after me (I am above the cleaning person)".
naaaaa just lazy... In Caborca there is a real push in schools to stop litter....things are getting better every day
Was nice that time i think it was leys that gave people garbage bags to fill throughout town in exchange for gift cards. However, is the same all over ( us & canada ) many people litter & throw cigarette buts anywhere. Too much effort nowadays to walk to the garbage can.
We drove down to Mi Playa on Monday afternoon just to check it out. The palapas are great, but the beach was unfortunately covered in trash everywhere. We looked at big signs that show the photos of the planned development there. Is that really all going to be built?
Unfortunately, the last time I was down in mid-July, the gals that were staying in a condo next to ours had been there all week also told us Mi Playa was indeed covered in garbage; we didn't even bother to check it out. And they had visited on a Wednesday, which means it must have been sitting there for days. Very sad, they need to get that place under control.
We were walking down the beach this morning, maybe a good 1.5 miles and, it was horrible, the garbage was even in the water, we pulled bags and plastic bottles all over and believe it or not it was in Sandy Beach from Princesa de Penasco to Esmeralda and back there is no difference where you go, we were thinking that if the Municipality install garbage containers in the federal area a few feet away from the highest high tide line maybe will help better and what was worst was that the beach cleaning machine came went all along for about 4 miles and came back like purposely over his own tracks and left cleaning very little of the garbage
Every time I walk on the beach I take a bag with me to pick up trash. To me it is just part of loving the beach. I usually collect shells in one direction, and trash on the way back. But at Mi Playa the two of us would have had to literally spend hours picking up the trash piled everywhere, and then we would need a pickup to haul it all away. It is a shame. The beach lover in me cried "Do something!", but there was too much trash for one beach-loving hippie to make a dent.
If I am down there I will participate in any group beach clean up; anytime, any beach. :thumbsup:
Was nice that time i think it was leys that gave people garbage bags to fill throughout town in exchange for gift cards. However, is the same all over ( us & canada ) many people litter & throw cigarette buts anywhere. Too much effort nowadays to walk to the garbage can.
I totally disagree. Can't speak for Canada, but you will not find very many beaches in the US trashed up like the Mexicans do. While not perfect in refuse game, I do think Americans for the most part don't like the sight of trash. I've rarely ever seen trash left on the beaches of San Diego, Orange County, LA, Northern CA, etc. If it happens, there is usually someone right behind them to pick it up. Nothing worse than a beautiful beach all trashed up.
That's what I don't get... Is it a cultural thing? Is it laziness? If you walk into their homes, is there trash just laying around? The Mexican friends we have in Penasco always have their homes tidy when we visit. Same with their yard. But other homes have garbage and old tv's, etc just laying in the yard. I wonder if poverty plays a factor in the lazy attitude of just throwing your waste on the ground or storing garbage in your yard? I mean, it is night and day obvious that when you cross the border, within 50 yards of crossing you know you are in Mexico because of the trash. Although we are used to it, it's pretty nasty.
I totally disagree. Can't speak for Canada, but you will not find very many beaches in the US trashed up like the Mexicans do. While not perfect in refuse game, I do think Americans for the most part don't like the sight of trash. I've rarely ever seen trash left on the beaches of San Diego, Orange County, LA, Northern CA, etc. If it happens, there is usually someone right behind them to pick it up. Nothing worse than a beautiful beach all trashed up.
That's what I don't get... Is it a cultural thing? Is it laziness? If you walk into their homes, is there trash just laying around? The Mexican friends we have in Penasco always have their homes tidy when we visit. Same with their yard. But other homes have garbage and old tv's, etc just laying in the yard. I wonder if poverty plays a factor in the lazy attitude of just throwing your waste on the ground or storing garbage in your yard? I mean, it is night and day obvious that when you cross the border, within 50 yards of crossing you know you are in Mexico because of the trash. Although we are used to it, it's pretty nasty.
Larry, you must be a youngster. Just a few decades ago, trash littered beaches and highways in the US, too. The combination of a public education campaign and stiff fines for littering finally made a difference, but it took time to indoctrinate people into using the trash cans. Seeing beaches and roads littered bothers me as much as it does you, but your comments about it being cultural are way off base.
Back 40 or 50 years ago in the US people would throw trash out of cars all the time. Then came the Native American with a tear inhis eye and we started keeping our trash in our cars. I still remember the bag in my parents car and boy oh boy did we get yelled at if we didn't use it.Something about getting a ticket my da would say. After a while it became a habit, like wearing seat belts.
When I was a little kid in Torrance and before we moved to Phoenix in 56/57 everyone called it "tin can beach".
Huntington Beach, one of the fastest growing cites in the nation during the 1960s, has slowed down quite a bit since it was transformed from a rough and tumble oil town into the third largest city in Orange County.
The community was founded in 1901 as Pacific City on the site of a former Spanish land-grant ranch. In 1904, the townspeople changed the name to honor Pasadena developer Henry Huntington, who made the small city a stop on his Pacific Electric "Red Car" Railway line.
The city's first boom occurred after Standard Oil Co. began drilling for oil in 1920, and a forest of derricks lining the beaches led to the nickname "Oil City."
It gained the unflattering nickname of "Tin Can Beach" early on from the debris found in the sand. Following is a first person account from Ed Sweeny, who used to visit the area at the time:
"During the years that we used to go to 'Tin Can Beach' 1946-1956, it was not uncommon for people to go and stay for a week or two at a time. Families with 20-30 members would go during the summer, when it was so hot in the inland valley, and pitch army tents and stay for a couple of weeks at a time. The men went off to work every day and came back to the beach afterwards. The adults slept in tents on cots and the kids slept out under the stars. Families camp fires every night. It was family fun, especially during Grunion run. On the down side, the kids had cuts all over their feet from all the tin can lids buried in the sand...and of course, it was free."
In 1961, the state cleaned up the tin cans and created Bolsa Chica State Beach.
We were at mission beach and there was litter on the boardwalk & beach. Granted they do have workers that do come and clean. Driving thru northern cali we were shocked at how much crap were on the freeways. Now oregon & washington are cleaner...Just in general watching the "younger" generation they dont seem to clean up after themselves...seems more of a "someone else" will do it for me...
Too bad the city couldnt hire out people to clean beaches...like the ones they have sweeping sand off the roads at sandy beach..
Driving thru northern cali we were shocked at how much crap were on the freeways. Now oregon & washington are cleaner
As soon as you cross into Cali on I-10 at Blythe, there is not only a noticeable difference in the lack of upkeep along the freeway, but there's a 50 cent hike in gas as well. I tell my Cali friends that the road I take down to Rocky Point is cleaner than their freeway, and I'm right... Cali is broke, so they just don't have the money to keep up their highways like before.
P.S. and remember, those darn liberals up in Oregon instituted a "bottle law" way back in the 70's.
.......make Puerto Penasco far from a Resort destination for Cruise lines. The road south stinks, the trash dump is not covered and winds make this area a sad sight. Not a first class tourist destination........
Wahoo, Penasco is very far from a first class tourist destination, it is working its way into it however still a few years to get there, still need to have the marina, cruise port, closer airport or at least decent transportation from and back to the existing airport, first lets get the flights in......
Just about an hour ago I saw the cleaning machine come by the beach in Sandy Beach and did it again he drove in and in his way out he drove back on top of the same tracks he made coming in, seems like the only thing they clean is the seaweeds in the tide line and nothing else, so that could be the orders he/she was given.
Like I have said before and now many of you are saying it, all it takes is education for the people to do what is best for them, ignorance is bliss if you are surounded by nothing and nobody!! IMHO
Eduardo....it may not pick up all of the garbage, but I'm sure the seaweed has trapped a lot of what was on the beach overnight.....it's better than nothing!
Recalling my first trip down to Penasco back in the early 1980's, I was struck by the amount of garbage that was on the sides of the road...even with the little traffic that you saw driving down.....I've always wondered if it was an educational or cultural phenomenom????
Which part of sandy beach was he cleaning. Our developement ( las palmas ) bought one and if it ours, i will let the hoa know this as when we were there last they did the whole beach area which was the whole reason we bought it.
Which part of sandy beach was he cleaning. Our developement ( las palmas ) bought one and if it ours, i will let the hoa know this as when we were there last they did the whole beach area which was the whole reason we bought it.
That could be why he does it that way, at least in front of Princesa, I believe he comes in and out thru the opening on the beach of Casa Blanca condos but not sure 100% however I did notice more tracks at Las Palmas, I thought that service was provided by the municipality for all the beaches as I saw the machine at Mirador beach a while back too.
One thing I did like more in Sandy Beach is that since there are no rocks or as many it does not have as much broken glass as Mirador does, however the amount of trash is more as there are a lot more people there than in Mirador.
Joe, I do not believe that being inconsiderate/disrespectful is cultural, those seem to be more of an educational value, mannerism start at home if your household never had it it will be harder for you to have them!
... it absolutely is Education. I guess you can say someone is lazy if he/she is not able to finish High School.
I say where there is a will there is a way.
Even here in Phoenix, two blocks away is a town called "Guadalupe" that is the same.
The "Did not complete High School rate is 56.2%" and the neighborhood has trash all over the roads and homes?
You do not see that in locations where High school completion rates are~ 3% with visual trash like that.
It is education which brings ones ability to see consequences of owns actions in the future vs living in the present and blind or caring about tomorrow.
I wonder what the High school completed (Equivalency) rate is in Rocky Point. Sea Dweller?
Is it really a question how many grades one had in school or is it educating people at all levels that throwing trash out your car window is wrong? I saw a guy dumping his trash in the raging river in Sonoyta last week and I am sure in his mind it was gone. Either he did not care or was not aware it now became someone elses problem. Is there a High School class on trash recycling?
In Tucson at a grocery store last month my husband almost got in a fight when he asked someone who just dumped his trash on the ground to put it in the garbage can! It's not just in Mexico although it probably occurs more down there from what every one says about Mi Playa.
In Tucson at a grocery store last month my husband almost got in a fight when he asked someone who just dumped his trash on the ground to put it in the garbage can! It's not just in Mexico although it probably occurs more down there from what every one says about Mi Playa.
We were in front of a North side market one hot summer day and a guy walking his great Dane while on the cell phone didn't notice it took a giant dump behind him (or was pretending not to notice) he starts walking away and my ex B-ball player buddy....bigger jerk than me) says hey Sir ...the guy walks back and to avoid the coming fight i ask the owner what time it is at the perfect moment...looks at his watch andsteps in the giant pile of crap while looking at the watch....still makes me happy to think about it
When the town I lived in in New Mexico had only 2 police vehicles, I destroyed them all with one complaint about littering. At the entry to the area is an S curve that crosses the main irrigation canal. Coming into town one day thruogh the curve I came across a vehicle pulled to the side of the road and someone throwing out a large quantity of styrofoam trash. I stopped and blew my horn and they took off. As I entered town I spotted one of the town's finest parked along the road, I stopped and told him about the trash and that I had the license number and description of the vehicle and would testify if he caught them. Well, the opportunity for some excitement did not have to be offered twice. He hit the lights and siren and took off with a cloud of dust in a decrepit state police hand me down patrol car. I drove on to my office on the main road and after a bit the second patrol car roared by, lights and siren. After about 5 minutes or so the ambulance roared by, lights and siren. Although they never apprehended the litterer, both of the pursuit vehicles slid off the road and were later declared totaled. I never heard the end of that. Whoops!
In Tucson at a grocery store last month my husband almost got in a fight when he asked someone who just dumped his trash on the ground to put it in the garbage can! It's not just in Mexico although it probably occurs more down there from what every one says about Mi Playa.
My husband got out of our van yesterday at a stoplight in Phoenix and picked up the trash in the street that the person in front of us had just thrown out his car window. The light changed and I wagged my finger at that idiot as he drove away. Some litterbugs will never change no matter where they live or how much they know.
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... it absolutely is Education. I guess you can say someone is lazy if he/she is not able to finish High School.
I say where there is a will there is a way......
When I meant Lack of education I was not refering to reguler schooling, schools in general are there to give the student a general knowledge education, math, science, literature, etc. the education I am refereing to is the moral and ethics you recieve at home from your parents/family, you can be consider extremely lucky if you get those two subject in a school now a days!!
I personally know a couple non high school graduates that have made an excelent carrier for themselves and have a very well manner families, one drop off school at the age of 10 and had to work in the ranch very hard and learn what mom and pop and life taught him, no books!!! well, he does read a lot for a non educated/school person!!
