Francois takes a breath from the regulator at the pool in Barra de Navidad during his first Scuba lesson. Francois and I hit the books over the weekend to pass the tests and get certified.
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Cela doit rappeler de bons souvenirs de baptême à Pascale !
Bzzz à tous
Our friend Henri left Barra today on his boat, C. Boubou, heading south towards Costa Rica. Notice the prevailing winds in the palm trees!
We'll soon be following close behind.
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View of the pool at our marina in Barra de Navidad.
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Pascale and Antoine dressed up for Halloween here in Barra. Pascale put her former movie-makeup-artist skills to good use! The boys Francois and Antoine went trick-or-treating, but it had a different outcome from what they expected. They were inundated by little Mexican kids asking for the candy that they had collected, and by the time the night was over, they had given it all away!
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Pascale is frightening in that photo!
We flew back to our boat Oct. 20 along with a ton of spare parts and projects. Our plan is to get the boat ready for the next leg of our trip and then head south towards Panama.
The boat was in good condition when we returned, after leaving it in the marina for 4 months. The only problem seems to be the refrigeration, which doesn't get quite cold enough. I'm having a refrigeration specialist (a freon jockey) look at it tomorrow.
We had a friend (Henri) carry back a trunkload of spare parts in his car. Among these were another 4D battery and a polyethylene battery box (actually a West Marine 13 gallon holding tank with one end cut off). I installed it under the forward bunk, thus increasing our house bank capacity by 25 percent.
We also brought new fans (the old ones got so much use they stopped working). We have a large number of other projects to be completed before we leave Barra.
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Alors bon vent vers le sud et Panama.
Une fois dans les Caraïbes, c'est plein Est vers le étroit de Gibraltar puis plein Est, un peu Nord Est aux Baléares et ensuite vers le port de Santa Lucia de St Raphaël ;)
Bzzzz
For the duration of hurricane season (summer), we are home in California. Since we have tenants in our house throughout the month of August, we have gone camping, to our favorite remote lake in the Mendocino National Forest, and now in the Truckee area north of Lake Tahoe.
Today, we did a whitewater rafting trip on the Truckee river. That was fun!
We return to our boat in Mexico and will continue our trip south in October.
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We flew home July 6, boarding a flight from Manzanillo to Mexico City, with a connection from there to Leon and thence to Oakland CA. The trouble is, we missed our connection in Mexico City. The airline put us up in a hotel for the night and booked us another flight from Mexico city at 6 PM the following evening.
This gave us the whole day to visit Mexico City. Turning lemons into lemonade, we booked a tour guide and got started early, at 8 a.m.
We visited the Aztec pyramids north of the city, and these were quite spectacular. We climbed up to the top of the larger of the two pyramids, the Pyramid Del Sol. This was pretty exhausting since the base elevation of these pyramids is at 7500 feet (2200 m). What a great view from the top!
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I was there and bought coffee and someone took the empty bag so I cannot order more coffee.
I would appreciate it very much.
Thank You
Carolyn
Post Script: you have a lovely family!
Here in this image, you can see how close Andres came to us... our boat is as cose to the red dot as you can get! Still, we had no problems!
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