Saturday, February 17, 2007

We spent a couple of days in Acapulco which is a large city, population over 1 mil. At night, the lights from the city and hotel row were dazzling. From there, we sailed through the night (35 hours, 175 miles) to Puerto Escondido, a small cove, tropical, beach lined with lots of people playing joyfully in the surf. The water felt like a warm bathtub. We next sailed 40 miles to Puerto Angel where we found a wonderful anchorage on Playa Panteon. We stayed a few days and explored the village and met some of the locals. We are currently in Huatulco waiting for a weather window to safely cross the Gulf of Tehuantepec. This will be a 260-mile crossing and is notorious for very high winds and seas.

Our cruising pattern will change from here out, as there are fewer places to stop and anchor as we continue south which means lots of “overnighters”. We will miss stopping at the wonderful villages, bays, coves and ports that we have visited but it will be preparation for our crossing of the Pacific….which is quickly approaching.

Our next stops will be Guatemala, El Salvador, then Costa Rica. We are really looking forward to Costa Rica and all its wonders.


Monica whom we met in Puerto Angel.



Monica, Paula, Netti, these girls were amazing.
They visited us everday.


Entering Acapulco


Acapulco




Puerto Escondido

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Hello from beautiful Zihuatanejo. We are here on anchor for a week or so. It is hot, 98 degrees today but a nice breeze keeps things bearable. We have made some great stops on this last leg of the journey, exploring some cool towns and remote villages. We sail as much as the wind allows, one day 68 miles averaging over 6 knots. We continue to see lots of wildlife, dolphins swimming along with boat, a few whales, lots of different birds, and several sea turtles leisurely floating on the sea surface.

Please enjoy the pictures. There are a lot of them so we may have to do several posts to get them all loaded.

The boat is working fine and we are great.We are almost out of Mexico. Our next major port is Acapulco.

While in Z-town we participated in Sailfest which
raises money for children in the nearby hills.
Paula visted the village and school












The school house untill the new one is built with the
help of funds raised by Sailfest


We thought the grandkids might like to no that these
rocks are not naturally white


Isla Ixtapa


A panga adorned for something


Zihuatanejo

Friends in Las Hades in Manzanillo Bay



Kyle had his 12th birthday onboard with his
cruising family


Kyle's mom and dad, Carl and Yvette, I'm sorry we
didn't get a picture of there other son, Joel. What a
great family.


Kathy, our friend from Olympia who flew to Las
Hades to see us and have some fun in the sun. We
had a great time while she was there.

Various beautiful places

Tenactita


Jungle river we dinged up, the canopy completed
covered the river further up


Beautiful hotel in Yelapa Bay


Chamela


Private homes




San Blas Estuary

Mazatlan




Us at Hamburger Paradise


Mazatlan's Hotel Row


I took this pictures from underneath the statue




These pictures are from a little place called Ipala

We walked over a hill to the ocean side





Ipala school house