San Felipe Foam Party.
 


San Felipe, Baja, Mexico

Foam parties aren't necessarily a good thing. When I was eight years old I attended one and it convinced me to never join another. It came about when I excitedly hurled a four-letter word at my brother. My mother overheard and promptly organized the party. I watched in horror as she unwrapped the foam machine --a bar of Camay soap.

By today's standards it wasn't a very erotic experience. It didn't produce a lot of froth. I remember there was a lot of leg-kicking and gagging.

During Spring Break the Rockodile, one of San Felipe's best-known nightclubs, has taken foam away from disciplinarians and offered it to the pre-Logan's Run crowd. College students strip down to speedos, g-strings and dental floss to frolick and dance inside waves of the stuff. A foam machine the size of a jet engine spews a tsunami of soapy bubbles that engulfs the crowd with popping, winking cells of air. It's a lot of fun, they say. There's still leg-kicking and gagging going on, but married to an awful lot of laughter.

Below are some photos from a recent foam soiree. Photos courtesy of Mark Covert.

Foam Party  at the Beachcomber in San Felipe
Foam Party  at the Beachcomber in San Felipe
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Foam Party  at the Beachcomber in San Felipe
Foam Party  at the Beachcomber in San Felipe
Foam Party  at the Beachcomber in San Felipe
Foam Party  at the Beachcomber in San Felipe
Foam Party  at the Beachcomber in San Felipe
Foam Party  at the Beachcomber in San Felipe
Foam Party  at the Beachcomber in San Felipe

Because of the bias the US media has exhibited in its attempt to strangle the flow of tourism to Mexico (for a possible reason, click here) there has been very little student activity during Spring Break for the past several years in San Felipe, and certainly no organized visits. Perhaps when people stop believing everything they see strobing out of their televisions or everything they read in the press, that condition may change.