Never Tired of this view

This is what I woke up to everyday. This is not the beach in Puerto Aventuras, Where I live now, it is the beach of Xpu-Ha. It used to take 5 minutes to drive from Puerto to Xpu-ha 15 years ago, and it stayed that way for quite awhile, but then the hotels came, Barcello, Palace Resorts, the time share chain, ect. which brought traffic but worse, it took away our private hideaways, the places we went on our afternoons off, or on a day off and sometimes even at lunch time.
At the end of Xpu-ha Beach was a rock (limestone) jetty and when you walked around it you came upon a very small, unbelievably beautiful deserted bay full of fish and if you walked to the middle of it and looked back, through the bush was a
Cenote (above ground water hole, could be the size of a bathtub or as large as a pond or river). being so close to the sea the water was warmer than the ones we find in the jungle. so here we are, 2 friends, 4 friends, spending our time together, swimming, sunning, snorkeling and not another soul around. It was an awesome escape. just minutes by foot from where we worked.
If you were to continue on past the cenote and following the beach front you come upon another bay, a very large bay, and absolutely nothing, but palm trees, white sand beach, and blue, blue water. There were no entrances from the road to these hideaways. so again, alone all day. We did have to come prepared for the second bay, (water, lotion ect.) Once you were there, you were there, nothing around you, too far to go back and the beach front at that time was still deserted.
It was like being on your own private island.
Unfortunatly over time the Bay/Cenote was bought buy Palace Resorts and became a Timeshare Resort, and even though the beaches in Mexico are free and open to everyone, the hotel security would never let us pass, we used to argue but it ended up being a waist of time so we found new places to go.
The second bay, our own "Private Idaho" was taken over by Barcello Resorts, Which turned into a Resort area that holds over 5,000 people. It's like a little City, Im not here to critique the hotels, lots of people seem happy with them, but they took all that space, which means no one but the Resort guests get to use the beach.
I don't mean to get on a rant, even though it's so unfair to the mexican people.
I started to tell you this because posting this picture of the beach brought back the great memory's of first moving to the Yucatan Peninsula, which is what the Maya Riviera, or Riviera Maya used to be called.