Puerto Vallarta

Ed Fladung captures another surfer – Sayulita style…

Crowds fill the civic basketball court. The dancing stops. Then a hushed silence. Families wait for the elaborate structure of wood and bamboo – the castillo – to burst into life. Suddenly, a crack! A hissing sound, followed by a popping and whizzing. Embers cartwheel onto excited onlookers below.

Ed Fladung has posted a great series of photos taken during the Fiesta De La Virgen De La Paz in Bucerias last week.

Originally uploaded by Ed Fladung

This image captured my attention while reading Ed Fladung’s blog.

It was taken during a night out in Sayulita, a little Pacific fishing community an hour’s drive north of Puerto Vallarta.

Ed’s parents design-and-build vacation homes around the northern rim of the Bahia de Banderas.

Note: Sayulita, in Nayarit state, is in a different time zone (an hour behind) Puerto Vallarta, which is in Jalisco.