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Welcome to Jaltemba Times, a community website for the towns along Jaltemba Bay on the Pacific coast of Nayarit, México: La Peñita de Jaltemba, Rincón de Guayabitos, and Los Ayala.

We invite the involvement of not just residents but visitors and anyone else with an interest in our area, in México in general, and in other things we have in common. We hope to broaden and elevate the level of discourse along our Bay.

With your interest and participation this website will become an engaging and informative online community. Submissions are welcome: event reports, want ads, comments, informative articles, literary pieces, whatever.

Terry Coomber

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FM-3 Renewal: the new system

Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:52 Terry Coomber

A friend emailed a document which he received from a friend, so I have no idea where it originated, but it outlines the new procedures for renewing a non-working FM-3 which were instituted at Migración on 1 May. Some things you will be able to do online before visiting an INM office.

The document lists everything you'll need and provides step by step instructions for filling out forms as well as sample letters to submit.

The following is a large Adobe Reader document; if you don't have Reader installed on your computer, you can download it here.

Read about the new procedures here.

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Chiggers ate my dog

Tuesday, 30 March 2010 00:00 Dr. J, DVM

Doctor,

I took my dog down the dump road after reading Tom Plattenberger's essay lately. My husband and I were lucky enough not to get chiggers. But my 14-pound 13-year-old dachshund did! She's been washed in soapy hot water but not until one day later when I noticed her scratching. We ourselves have also washed our clothes and linens and still no signs of chiggers on us.

Is there something I can ask for at a Vet's down here to treat/kill the chiggers and/or relieve her itching?

Regards,
Mary in San Pancho

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Native Plants of the Jaltemba Bay Area

Friday, 19 February 2010 00:00 Terry Coomber

I love finding wild plants I haven't seen before. In southwestern Ontario I had many reference books to help me to identify them, but here in Nayarit there is little to help me other than long, usually futile searches on the Internet.

After years of intermittent research and much photography, these pages are my incipient flora of the area which will help you to identify and learn something about some of the plants near Jaltemba Bay.

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Up the Monteon creek

Wednesday, 31 March 2010 09:08 Tom Plattenberger

A swimming hole in the Monteon creek

Last hot, hot summer, Bruce and I took up on an invite from Lenor and Terry Coomber to join with Dawn and Brian Blevings for a trip to the swimming holes up El Monteon Creek. We had a nice day bobbing around in one of the many pools that people have scooped out of the gravel creek-bed. We gorged from coolers full of snacks and icy beverages. We napped on big sunny boulders and marveled at the variety of butterflies that came fluttering by us. This creek, running cool and clear through the thick, tropical forest seemed to invite further upstream exploration, but it would be several months before I returned.

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Where did our beaches go?

Tuesday, 09 March 2010 17:09 Terry Coomber

For the past couple of years we've been extremely disturbed over the seeming privatization of most of the beaches in our neighbourhood.

Today a friend pointed me to a posting from 4 February on the Chacala Life blog entitled "Uncontrolled Beach Privatization" which is an English translation of an earlier newspaper article. It explains a lot, in depressing detail.

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Taking adopted Mexican pet back north

Monday, 15 February 2010 22:57 Dr. J, DVM

Dear Doc J,

We adopted a tiny kitten which was starving and being abused in Chacala. We are nursing him back to health, but it's nearly time to go back home. What can we do to get him healthy and what do we have to do to get him into Canada?

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