Yesterday we traveled all of six miles to Nuevo Vallarta, which is a few miles north of Puerto Vallarta. We enjoyed La Cruz. Brian got his teeth cleaned by a local dentist (the fee was 27 USA dollars). There were large, green and orange iguanas, some four or five feet long including the tail, hanging out in the trees next to the dentist's office.

Nuevo Vallarta has a marina that is attached to a large resort, called Paradise Village. This place has hotels, restaurants, pools, spa, even a small zoo. Yet the moorage fees are pretty reasonable, so we're here for a few days. Yesterday we spent the afternoon at the largest pool, which has water slides shaped like crocodiles.

We're happy to have reconnected with the crew of the Canadian catamaran S/V LetItGo, whom we last spent time with in La Paz. We happened to be in La Cruz at the same time and they're now here at Paradise Village. We've enjoyed a couple of on-board dinners together, and today we took our dinghies up into the estuary that's beyond the marina, hoping to spot a crocodile or two. We only saw one, but he was a big one, standing on the estuary bank until he saw us (and heard our noisy outboard motors, no doubt), at which point he trotted into the water and disappeared, probably watching us as we passed by.