These were some of the "shacks" along the bay outside of Chacala
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Left Chacala at about 7 AM to head for La Cruz. Had to motor the whole way, as there wasn't any wind (again). La Cruz in Northwesterly of Puerto Vallarta by about 15 miles and on Banderas Bay. Banderas Bay is huge, some 600 square miles. As we turned the corner around Punta Mida, the wind picked up and we could have sailed to La Cruz, but decided not to as it was only a couple of hours away.
Got on the radio and tried to contact Wally (Andanzas, from Ventura and Mazatlan), couldn't get him until we were almost there. He told us how to get in and directed us to a slip.
There were 3 boats on the same finger as us that had been in Mazatlan with us (same finger). Andanzas, Dolce Vita (he left Chacala at 1:30 AM) and Gypseas Palace. We also heard from Jim & Jeannine (Char Ann) as they were in the anchorage outside of the marina.
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Great Blog! We are really enjoying your pictures and seeing all the folks from G-Dock! We are in Bahia Santa Maria and will leave in the AM for Cabo. We have solar panels for Neill onboard and will probably be meeting him in Mazatlan. Hopefully, we will see you guys further down the coast. If you are interested our blog is www.southtrail.blogspot.com
Fairwinds!
All my best, Katalina
01/31/2010, Mexico
This is the beach in Chacala. As viewed from the stern of our boat.
01-09-10
We arrived in Chacala about 3 in the afternoon. Chacala is a very small anchorage, about ½ mile deep by about 1½ mile across. We found the anchorage to be a little rolly, but not bad. When we pulled in we saw a boat that looked very familiar, it was a boat that had left a few days before us from our dock in Mazatlan, Dolce Vita, with Denny aboard. We didn't go ashore, as we would have had to unroll and blow up the dinghy, as we were leaving the next morning it wasn't worth it. Depending how things go, we may go back and spend a couple of days.
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01/31/2010, Off the West coast of Mexico
Rob hated this bird, when he had to clean up after him.
01-09-10
During our ride to Chacala, a bird (don't know what kind) decided to use our boat for transportation (or he was tired). He boarded our boat at dusk and when I pulled the jib out at 8:00 AM it startled him and he took off. He had been with us for about 14 hours and we had traveled about 80 miles down the coast. He did leave us with a few deposits on the deck, which we had to clean off. We could hardly see him during the night except for our running lights. He had a white body, but it looked green in the lights.
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01/31/2010, Mexico
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Judy, Rob and I had gone to a place called Stone Island (see earlier post). We had only seen part of it and wanted to see more. Jim & Lucy (aboard Passage II) had wanted to see it too, so we all decided to get on a bus and go there. We took an old bus, 6 pesos each, to the end of the line. We actually rode the bus to far and had to walk back to the place where we could take the water taxi over to the "island". This cost us 20 pesos each for a round trip.
Upon arriving there, we walked down to the beach and had lunch. The beach is very long, about 2-3 miles; we didn't walk the whole beach. We had a very nice lunch; Lucy and I had a fried fish. They served us a whole fish each, it was a pompano and very delicious (at least we thought so). Jim gave Judy a hard time about eating the eyeballs.
After getting back to the "mainland", we took a bus back to "downtown" and wandered around a bit and then back to the marina.
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01/05/2010, Mexico
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We have spent the last few days getting the boat re-provisioned and ready to continue our journey further South. There will be more to follow later, after we get to wherever we decide to stop. We love this picture that Jeannine took on our dingy trip and decided to include it in our blog.
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01/05/2010, Mexico
This was taken by Jeannine of Jim & Lucy and Judy & I in our dingys.
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Jim & Jeannine brought their boat up to our marina and stayed a couple of days.
The 6 of us (G Dock) decided to go on a dingy ride into a back bay from the marina. There are a lot of beautiful homes back there, along with birds and iguanas. The birds (white herons and cormorants and some others we didn't know) roost on an island at night. It appears that the island is man-made. The channel also goes by the El Cid golf course.
We all then went to the local bar for Monday Night Football as a parting night for Jim & Jeanine. We said goodbye to them the next morning (on the radio) as they left before anyone was awake. They are heading South and we will catch up with them later.
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