The white blob in our thumbnail is a parasail, with the speedboat doing circles just to the East. This is just off the coast of Mexico where we can see the Rui Palace hotel (again, under construction in the satellite photo) where submitter “DJ Swammi” is going on honeymoon next month.

The Laredo “Boy’s town” in Mexico is a legal prostitution area which, not by chance, is just over from Laredo, Texas. A Dallas Observer article goes into further details of the American young men who frequent the area.

In the aerial photo you can plainly see the 8-foot wall around the “Boy’s Town” which keeps it separate from the rest of the town. There is only one entrance and exit, to the east, which can be seen in the thumbnail below.

Wikipedia

Giant writing in Mexico: “PROMESAS“. Using my excellent Spanish skills I translated this to “Promises”, although who’s promising who what I can’t tell you.

Thanks: Timo V Tikansalo & marwan

Just beside the International bridge between Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico we find this gigantic Mexican flag, the way it sticks out the earth makes it look like something out of a cartoon.

This is one of a few flags which has been placed on the USA-Mexico border by the Mexican Army and is 28.6 x 50 m, weighing 350 kg, and hoisted on a flag pole 103m tall. Presumably in response to the Mexican flag there is a smaller USA flag sticking out of a building just to the north (more on the flags).

Thanks: Charles

Update: After much debate in the comments of this post, determined reader Patrick has finally tracked down the truth about this mysterious location! Patrick contacted a friend who lives in Mexico and she pointed him towards this forum thread, where he discovered that this is a place called La Lobera; and our ‘hole in the coast’ is in fact, a collapsed sea cave. There’s some brilliant images of the hole and the surrounding area in the thread, some of which show the structure to be of pretty staggering size.

Many thanks and much kudos to Patrick, as this was driving us nuts!

Anyone know what this strange hole in the coast of Mexico is? Weird.

Thanks to Joey Shabadu