The marina community

These lovely gentlemen keep the marian going:  Juan, the harbormaster, in organge shirt is  a calm, easygoing person who puts up with a lot.  This year the marina was full, and friends of our's had to anchor out in La Cruz, which isn't such hard duty, however we couldn't see them.  He has to deal with complaints, keeping the port captain happy, and shuffling boats around to keep the cruisers happy.  Mexican law has him stuck to his desk  90% of the time due to mounds of paperwork.  We will miss him.  The two shorter fellows are called "The Panchos" , yet one is Francisco ( we have yet to figure out which) and they can fix, fabricate, make, create anything that is need to keep this marina going. easygoing and very sweet people, all of them.

Pedro and Cooper having a love fest on board.  Pedro's wife is due any day now, his seventh with Rosa.

Tom and Emily from Girl Four and us at our favorite little restaurant.  They left for a trip to Barra and came back for just a few days, and now are off to head north.  We have met them in Cabo San Jose and here in Nuevo and figured out that they really were not in the witness protection program as they have a daughter in Santa Monica they will visit this summer.  We get to see them, too - fun for us.  The problem with cruisng communities is they are so fluid and it is bittesweet when we all sail off.  This time, we get to see T & E in Calif., unless of course they are hiding out somewhere.   

Red sky at morning.......

Every morning we hear the weed blower from deep in those trees Vallarta Adventures - and then the tourist boats go out around 8 am.  We wake up slowly and think we are blessed to have this to see.

Usually, red sky at morning means sailor take warning.  Here, it might mean 15 - 20 mph winds out of the bay.  Wind is a scarce commodity out on the ocean, in Mexico, and we motor more than sail.  But thank heaven we are at the head of Bahia Banderas and manage to get any breeze just to keep cool, from those mountains and later in the day, from the ocean.  We don't need no stinkin' air conditioning.....we can just go over to Starbucks if necessary.

 

Back in Banderas......

These photos were taken before our southing trip - but worth posting:  Lisa and Ailsa at a potluck on our boat. We borrowed the table from the Muelle Grille.

Lisa, Jon and Rodrigo.  Rodrigo sold his boat once he and his girl arrived here and it seems he may be part of selling I"O in San Diego.  Lisa and Jon are our parttime boat buddies in the past and we went south with them.  The continued on to Zihuatenejo and are having a great time at the Guitar Festival.

We call these African Tulip trees in Hawaii. Spring has sprung here in the bay.

Who knows if these dreams are  dead or just a cheap place for storage outside of La Cruz.  We wondered how the boat got here.

Return to Tenacatita

 

 

At the very top of the hotel is the "secret" pool - we are sad to leave, but want to get back to Nuevo so Alan does not get stranded on the highway waiting for a bus.  The harbor master's office is to the extreme right, and he spent quite a bit of time telling Robert how he wants to attract more cruisers.  Why they have such high rates in the winter season is a mystery.  Summer rates are $8.50/.ft - which would be about $400 for I'O.  Given the buggy atmosphere in the late afternoon, it would not be a happy surpise to come back in the fall.

Robert is getting ready to take the dogs to their favorite beach.  The water is so clear and warm, in comparison to Nuevo we don't really want to leave.  The morning we left we heard more than one monkey chattering up a storm in the trees.

Good dog beach is to the right of Robert.  These last two photos were taken by a special camera by Jon on Molly J.