Rob and I recently spent a week's vacation in what we consider to be a hidden gem and our secret little spot of sand in Mexico...
I hesitate greatly to mention this wonderful place in such a public forum but I'm just so in love with this island I have to share a little....
The island is called Isla Holbox and it is located north of Cancun. It can only be reached by taking a two hour car ride from the Cancun airport to a small town on the coast named Chiquila. In Chiquila you then board a thirty minute ferry which takes you directly to Isla Holbox.
The island itself is mainly inhabited by fishermen and their families. There are no cars on the island and most people get around in golf carts, rigged up for various purposes such as hauling tourists and their luggage, transporting dos equis beer to restaurants, riding up and down the beaches, etc.
The fact that the island is somewhat difficult to get to makes it a remote location and one where the beaches are quiet and uncrowded. There are no beach vendors, or shopkeepers calling to passers by. It seems to Rob and I that the Isla Holbox locals are a happy, content people who are well provided for by the fruitful ocean around them.
Speaking of the fruitful ocean, the waters around Isla Holbox are calm and warm and clear and the beaches are gorgeous stretches of white sand. The waters are shallow for a long way out from the shore and there are schools of fish swimming by in the distance. There is such a constant flow of fish it's amazing!
Rob and I spent one morning on our last trip to Holbox out on the flats fishing with simple rod and reels. We easily pulled in 18 fish in just three hours! It was a blast! The fisherman who took us out that day made ceviche from one of the fish we caught and served it to us on the beach upon our return. He also cleaned a couple of the fish (one large trout and one grouper) and we took those back to our hotel where the chef cooked them for a delicious lunch.
Being the Real Estate minded couple that we are Rob and I couldn't help but ponder the prices of property on Isla Holbox and how it might be changing in the near future as more and more people venture out to visit. It seems to us that the majority of the tourists who now travel to Isla Holbox come from Europe and South America. This is evidenced by the French, Italian, Portugese and German that you hear while lounging on the breazy beaches or eating in the delightful restaurants.
So here's the part that brings this post into something that belongs on Activerain....a link to the Isla Holbox Real Estate website.... http://www.ricardobarraza.com/holboxproperties/inicio.htm
Take a look! It's a pretty interesting place and the market there while already on the upswing is very intersting to watch....
It's raining/snowing here in Park City today and so writing this post made me feel just a little of the warmth I felt while I was there on the beach just last week. Of course there's another website you may really want to check out another great website...that's our site....it's www.parkcitywire.com
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Holbox property is no longer a 'bargain' in any sense of the word. That disappeared when the whale sharks appeared a few years ago. We bought our land in 2001, just before the prices began to skyrocket. Now that the island has been 'discovered', and people cannot not refrain from posting about it on the internet, we are ready to sell and move on.