Monday, December 12, 2011

Last week's trip


We are really in Nuevo Vallarta....and due to the intenet hassles - are posting the trip this way....see prervious post.  Above is I'O in Custocomate.....we get beat up on the ocean and then find the CostaAlegre small inlets and relax.  The strange knob on the stern is the outboard.


When the seas are rough, the dogs get very anxious and try to climb to the cockpit to be with us.  So we have to spend time below, leaving the on watch short handed.  I watched them slip and slide around below and was terrifed they would get hurt, so we made the decision for me to get the car when we got to Perula.  From Tenacatita to Perula/Chamela was very rough and we ducked into Careyes, a place I had wanted to see.  Robert and Dave took the boat upwind of the islands at the entrance and very neatly turned downwind to tuck behind the islands to anchor in what was termed "moderate" holding.  We still rocked and rolled, but were out of the big waves - at another ghost town, although, very colorful.  The morning trip to Perula was a nonevent, and as we were very tired, that was good.


Las Hadas anchorage - peaceful and good - nobody at the hotel due to the American press...more shootings go on in one day in Richmond/Oakland than in a month in the drug areas.  This hotel was developed over 30 years ago and was stand alone elegance until more tourism development occurred here in the bay.  The guys went to town and found they had to create their own excitement as everything seems to work around the beach and the hotels, but they got to use the millionaire's pool at the hotel.

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