Madera Beach Walkway, Zihuatanejo, Mexico
Living on Playa la Ropa in Zihuatanejo, my morning walks tend to take me almost exclusively along that strand and I spend little time enjoying so many of the other walking routes that exist around town. Recently I took a lovely morning stroll along the Madera walkway that runs from the bridge over the flood control canal next to the Archaeological Museum on Playa Principal all the way to Playa Madera, with a relatively new extended section that carries on below and beyond the Hotel Irma to terminate at the rocks below Il Mare Restaurant and Villas Xihuacan.
The walkway consists of a cement path most of the way, bordered by bollards and rope, that winds over and around the rock outcroppings. When the tide and waves are larger the water tends to splash up onto sections of the path itself and spray the passersby and dampen the walkway. The surface is textured enough to not become slippery despite the dowsings.
The path disappears into the sands of Playa Madera but is taken up on the other side of the small beachfront restaurants to continue to the end. There are light posts along the path as well as occasional concrete benches, and when I walked there was a series of garbage collection receptacles and hand-painted signs placed by the students of one of the local high schools, trying to promote a sense of cleanliness and social responsibility in the walkway users, exhorting them to put the garbage in its proper place. As I walked that morning, there were a couple of municipal workers cleaning up the beach and gathering the collected garbage to be removed from the area.
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