Thanks for the info. Sounds like as usual it just depends on which gate you enter. Probably we'd be fine, but we may just wait until after June 22 before going across just to be safe.
As for what one would do once there, we've been in Sayulita since December. Our trailer park of mostly Canadiens mostly cleared out a month or so ago when the covid panic began to seem real, but we decided to stick around. Quarantining on a quiet empty beach with cool breezes, fresh fish, warm ocean, good waves and an empty beachside trailer park seemed preferable to all that's going on north of the border.
The beach has been officially closed since before Easter, and we see on and off patrols both by police and the marines, sometimes daily (though less so lately) to keep people from hanging around on the beach. But people behave like mice, when the cat leaves the mice emerge again. There were even a few arrests on the beach a few weeks back. An unlucky surfer emerging from the water just when the cops showed up, then a few days later a group of Euro tourists partying on the empty beach like it was all their own (they ended up just paying off the cops, so it all seemed just a revenue generating exercise).
At first they were even demanding surfers stay out of the water, but now we surf when we want. The patrols sometimes threaten and wave at us but don't do anything.
During the day the beach stays pretty quiet but we walk dogs etc. At sunset people come out to play as it seems the police have all checked out by then.
All in all most agree it has been the quietest and most pleasant time here in maybe 20 years. Like the sleepy pre-boom days. As quarantines go, we feel fortunate to be here.
Some distancing going on, some mask wearing, but less and less as time goes by and people relax about it or question what the fuss was about (in our empty trailer park we have built-in distancing). Tiendas and fish markets are open as is Costco in Vallarta so we are well stocked, but most shops and hotels and restaurants remain closed.
Word is however that Nayarit may opening for business soon. People want to get back to business, need to make some money, but it does feel too soon, like it (covid) hasn't really hit here yet. Have there been cases here? No one knows the truth it seems, but we just heard an entire family the next town south of us has tested positive. Once tourists start coming back and partying all could turn. We'll find out.
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