Meeting Mario (Drunk Scooter Guy)

One of the reasons I wanted to move to Cancun was to learn to kitesurf. The area has lots of wind (except during the summer) and miles of beaches, mostly with onshore or side-onshore conditions. Still, for a beginner, Cancun's beaches are less than ideal, because it's dangerous to launch unless you have a few line lengths (100m+) of empty beach & clear space downwind. That's hard to find here.

Anyway, one day I went to Chac Chi Marina (in the Hotel Zone, at km 3.5) because another blogger had recommended the beach there as a good place for beginner kitesurfers to practice flying a big kite. There are buildings to the West (which is usually downwind) but the beach is often deserted (as you can see from the photo below).



Beach near Marina Chac Chi, looking South