Rented a car for a whopping $25 a day and drove to San Salvador, the capital. Beautiful green jungle-covered volcanic mountains everywhere. Lots of cows and horses and dogs in the road pretty much everywhere. We noted that most properties, whether commercial or private, have very tall walls and massive gates. In parts of the…
Picking up from the previous post, we had another full day of sailing in very hot and humid weather. We arrived at the staging area (to cross the river bar in the morning) at 0300. Literally, as we arrived, we started getting alarms that our starter battery was critically low. Nothing I can do about…
After a cumulative year plus and 10 consecutive months in Mexico, we have finally moved on! No complaints about Mexico as we thoroughly enjoyed our time there. The Mexico we found bears almost no resemblance to the one most Americans have in mind. The people and culture are wonderful and we had some fantastic experiences….
We took another tour with the same guides to Izapa (early Mayan ruins), a waterfall deep in the jungle, and a Mayan chocolate maker. Miguel and Tony are some of the best guides we’ve ever had anywhere. Miguel is a lawyer, currently sitting as a local judge, and does these tours on the side for…
Well, we did end up stopping and spending the night in Bahia Maguey, one of the bays of Huatulco. Very attractive bay with a bunch of palapa restaurants on the beach. Did lots of swimming and had margaritas, guacamole and pico de gallo at one of the nicer looking places. Weather looked good, so we…
While in Acapulco we checked out the very nice Acapulco Yacht Club, site of the 1968 Olympic sailing events. It is located right next to the marina that we were in. One of the nicest looking and biggest clubs we’ve come across but no reciprocal privileges at all so we couldn’t partake. We also took…
We ended up spending a third night in Zihuatanejo because our laundry place decided to close long before we were supposed to pick it up. No big deal as we decided this is the nicest and most cruiser friendly beach town we have encountered yet. It has the most attractive malecon, the walkways are all…
We left Barra and went 20 miles to Ensenada Carrizal, a narrow inlet just around the corner from Manzanillo. Made water the whole way and shortly after we got there it clogged up with salp jellies. I don’t think they’re actually a kind of jellyfish, but they’re roughly 1 inch² clear organisms that string themselves…
The day after St. Patrick’s Day, Theresa flew to LA to take care of some business and pick up the remaining suitcase of boat gear we had ordered. I went to another St. Patrick’s Day event a couple days later at the rodeo grounds with some friends. We had the wrong time, so killed a…
We spent a couple days in the anchorage of Tenacatita, a short hop from Barra. It has a really cool mangrove adventure. At the corner of the beach behind some rocks is a small river (Estero Verde, parallels the beach) flowing into the bay (La Vena in the map photo). We dragged the dinghy across…
