In 2012 ourselves and another couple spent a week in La Manz staying at Casa Humber (Mar y Sol). This time we were at Tranquilidad.
The good news is no sewer overflows, at least none we saw. The bad news is, very little decent usable beach left in front of the town. Tranquilidad and a couple houses on either side of it seemed to front on most of the decent beach left until one walked pretty far north, past Casa Chaluda.
That very pricey new place that bills itself as a hotel can't seem to muster any attempt to clean up the beach in front that it and adjacent construction have made a pretty gross mess of.
Attached is a picture of what it looked like from our rental at Mar y Sol a decade ago. The restaurant next door had some tables and umbrellas on the beach but not the total takeover there now. Basically that entire end of the beach coming up to the causeway has been covered with junk down to and past the high tide line by the restaurants there.
On the other end, it is just a mess of boats, litter, dead fish, odor and a collapsed mess around that lagoon there. Whatever was running out of that lagoon looked pretty questionable. Ugh.
The beach was pretty dirty and rocky compared to 10 years ago and a whole lot smaller. I'm assuming the smaller is the result of that big storm a few years ago. Several restaurants have basically been allowed to take over much of the few hundred feet of decent beach left. Why a town that supposedly makes its living from the beach would permit this totally escapes me.
It was very sad to return and see what has happened to La Manzanilla. Very, very sad.
Apologies for the rotated image. Not sure why the image inserter rotated it. If a Mod can fix it, thank you very much.