Things to Do in Troncones - A Year on the Beach

Manzanillo Bay is the calm one — the gentlest swimming and snorkeling water in Troncones. The rocks off the point hold reef fish, turtles, & eagle rays; bring a mask, or borrow one of ours. Winter is the glassy season: long quiet spells and the clearest water of the year. Spring stays mellow while the water warms and the first south swells start knocking. Summer is when the Southern Hemisphere sends the real energy — most days the bay shrugs it off, but a few times a year a serious swell arrives and the bay changes jobs: experienced surfers in, swimmers spectating.

Sea turtles nest on this beach nearly year-round — olive ridleys, golfinas to the locals, with leatherbacks in the cooler months — and from late summer through winter, the sunset hatchling releases are almost a nightly event: small, wobbly, pointed at open ocean. The whales keep a stricter calendar. From late fall through winter, humpbacks pass close enough to spot from our beach chairs. No boat required. The boat helps.

There are waves twelve months a year here. Winter is clean and organized — offshore mornings, friendly walls, the surf you plan a trip around. Summer turns the volume up: long-period south swells, more water moving, fewer people on it. Troncones Point on out front. La Saladita, one of the longest lefts in Mexico, is twenty minutes up the road -  perfect for longboards and beginners.

The fishing runs year-round too. Yellowfin tuna on poppers offshore. Mahi in the blue water. Roosterfish cruising the beach troughs, close enough to sight-cast. Pangas launch at first light and have you back by lunch — most times with lunch.

The beach runs for miles in both directions. Walk it. Or ride it — horseback at sunset is exactly as good as it sounds. Behind town, a trail climbs into the green hills to a limestone cave, all canopy and birdsong. There's morning yoga nearby, and massages on your suite's private patio for whatever the surf did to you. All of it, any month you pick.

Zihuatanejo — markets, docks, real-town energy — is about thirty minutes south and good any month, best in late winter: SailFest in February, the International Guitar Fest in March, the whole bay with a soundtrack. Ixtapa, half an hour down the same road, has two golf courses — at their best in the dry months, and the water hazards occasionally include actual crocodiles. Majahua, the fishing village one cove north, is a barefoot lunch spot that turns its greenest once the rains begin. La Saladita you already know about — it wakes up with the south swells, spring through fall.

Winter dries the hills and fills the tables. Spring warms the water and empties the beach. Summer turns everything green and the surf up. Fall releases turtles at sunset and sends the first whales past. There's no wrong month — the year just keeps changing the channel.

The moods change. The address doesn't. The Inn at Manzanillo Bay — small on purpose, on the sand by design. Whenever the year finds you ready, book direct through our website for the best rates.