Tornado! Film Crew! An exciting day at Hotel Casino, Nicaragua

  "Did you see the tornado?",  John Wilson (aka The Big Mozey) asks me.

   I missed it! John (The Big Mozey) got some great photographs of it which are posted further down the post.

  I thought the excitement of the day was the film crew we had here today.

  They brought a band with them and they were filming an ad for Moviestar.

  After lunch, the film crew and band moved out to the beach and started setting up for photographs and filming.

   I took the stairs up to John's room and asked if he could take some pictures of the band and film crew.

   He shut off his computer (He's always working on the darn thing!), grabbed his camera and down the steps he went. That is the nice thing about John - if I ask him to do something, he is usually right on it.

John started taking pictures and I went into the Hotel Casino to help out with serving and dealing with the guests we had.

I was told later about the tornado, or waterspout I guess is the proper term, that began and ended while I was in the hotel.

John was gracious enough to allow me to post the pictures of the tornado (waterspout) that he took.

If you live on the west side of Nicaragua, you know that as the afternoon progresses and the evaporation from Lake Nicaragua picks up, we get some heavy duty weather here on the shore of the Pacific.

The following pictures give a good view of the type of clouds that move into Casares, Nicaragua in the latter part of the afternoon. John did a nice job of capturing the type of weather we had on Friday!

The film crew seemed to handle the weather and tornado in stride. John told me they watched the tornado or waterspout for a bit, then proceeded to go right back to filming the band.

All in all, an exciting day at the Hotel Casino.

Film crew, good business and a waterspout to watch. Only thing that could have topped this would be to have a beauty contest with the gorgeous women of Nicaragua!

When you visit Casares, stop on into the Hotel Casino!

Ciao for now.