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…
Sadly, my daughter Sarah was unable to come visit us because her Uncle Sam just couldn’t get around to delivering her passport. Expedited and overnighted be damned. So we’ll try again at the end of the semester. We toured a small family tequila distillery, Tequila Mama Lucia, in the town of Mezcales, fascinating how different…
I’ll start with the good stuff… As we were getting off a standing room only bus in the town of Bucerias, Theresa was in front of me. As soon as she stepped off, the door started to close. I threw my left arm out to hold it open and tried to hurry because that is…
We spent a week at anchor followed by a week plus in the marina to get some work done on the boat. Had the entire boat waxed and washed, wood stained, stainless polished and bottom cleaned. Had the UV protection on both sails replaced as the jib’s was in bad shape. As I have been…
This is a (funny?) little compilation of some of the hazards we have encountered while walking on sidewalks and various pedestrian corridors in Mexico. Every business and house does whatever they want in front of their property as far as a sidewalk, if any. Most are not at the same level as the one next…
