Home in Nuevo....

Color, lots of color - and so typical.  In the spring, Jon, on MollyJ and I were wondering why the hills were so brown.  Coming down the highway, with the incredible lush greeness of the hills and trees, we figured out that the vines that cover the trees all through the tropics lost leaves in the winter.  There was so much summer rain, as well as a hurricane, that the jungle has taken over.  Fields that were empty this past winter are full of sky high weeds and flowers are thick, throughout this muggy humid time.  Not our house, but the marina where we kept the boat.
The trip down was fairly easy as the highway is wonderful and we found our favorite rv parks - but the heat has been intense. The toll came to about $100 but it is worth it as the highway is safe and fairly new.  When we were here in November, last year, the weather  was perfect....am not complaining, too much, but we spent four days washing the interior of the boat to get rid of the mildew.  So much for hiring someone to open the boat to air it out all the time.  But we are getting better organized and getting rid of stuff.

This is a .85 and we are having a local sailmaker cut it down into a cruising spinnaker.  We got a bid from a fellow who waved his arms a lot, asked for money for  the estimate, and then called Noe.  Noe was actually born in Phoenix, and is Mexican, but an illegal Mexican.  We took him and his helper to lunch to hear his story - but he is able to pass between the US, legal there, and here fairly easily.  He knew what to do for hardly any money and we will have the stress and terror, well, perhaps not much, of flying a cruising spinnaker.  We thought it was great fun flying it at the dock and several people raced down to ask if we needed help dumping it.  Nope.  But nice neighbors and good to be "home".

The new guy, Captain Jack Murray - who knows his last name and that he has a great new home, although he is a bit of a klutz.  Watching him run in the grass areas here in the marina is watching greased lightning, but jumping around on the boat, he hasn't got it down yet.  We rescued him, altrhough the girl fostering him was uspset about letting him go, but he already has had adventures in swimming in the surf and learning the ropes from Koa.
The drawback is the heat caused both of them to shed like mad every day.  We are back to square one, sweeping up the boat.  He learns fast - and will the dinghy adventure tomorrow. 
We just saw one of those stand-up paddlers going though the marina.  I wonder if she knows about the crocodiles.