01-11, Chacala to 01-16 trip to PV

01-11, Wed. to 01-13, Fri. – These next few days were a nice relaxing few days in this beautiful anchorage. We met some interesting people to chat with, heard some interesting stories, laid about and read, relaxed in the hammock, tried the local cuisine, walked the town, walked the beach, did some cleaning on the boat, etc. etc. (At the far end of the beach, there was an exclusive high end yoga retreat http://www.mardejade.com Quite chi-chi – D)

01-14, Saturday – 49er game is today!! One of the owners ( a charming English lady named Amelia – D) of a palapa restaurant on the beach, Chac Mool, (http://chacala-cafe.blogspot.com/) and (http://chacmoolcafe.webs.com/) promised that they would bring their own personal TV down so we could watch the game and sure enough, when we got there it was there. It was a beautiful big-screen TV and they had set it up on a rickety fold up card table. One of the legs looked like it was about to collapse. It was funny! ( But it worked – D). At any rate we got to watch the best game we have seen in years!!! Of course we won. That pretty much covered it for the day.

01-15, Sunday – We decided to stay one more day we’ve been enjoying here so much. (Plus I had a day’s worth of boat maintenance projects to address that I hadn’t gotten to what with all the enjoying going on – D) Made one more trip to the beach, picked up some bread at the store and readied ourselves for tomorrow’s trip to La Cruz, in Banderas Bay.


01-16, Monday – We headed out at nearly 9:00 am for this approx. 7 hour trip. Just as we got out of the anchorage we saw about 5 whales playing in the bay. We have seen more whales in the last couple weeks than we’ve seen in our entire lives. The trip was uneventful, no wind, humid and motor sailing the entire way. The wind came up as we got into Banderas Bay, but we were almost there, so it wasn’t worth the trouble of raising and lowering sail.

We saw more whales along the way and then again in Banderas Bay! Must have seen 10 or 12 whales in all. Saw another big turtle too! I couldn’t figure out what this round black thing floating in the water was. I was worrying it might be a fishing line and then all of a sudden, he stuck his head up and looked around. It was funny!

We arrived and were anchored at 4:00 that afternoon. There are MANY boats (about 50-60 in the anchorage not counting the ones in the marina –D) and people we haven’t seen since the “Ha-Ha” or La Paz, so we scooted around in the dinghy to see who all was here. We will go exploring tomorrow and saying hellos. (Can’t wait to explore, this is supposed to be a very cool town with great food, music and art. The full name is La Cruz de Huanacaxtle for those that may want to look it up – D)