To my faithful readers I apologize for not updating the blog for 3 weeks but we are in Mexico and the manana attitude must have taken over. So I will try to be more timely but here is what we have been up to for the last several weeks.
We had visitors, Ernie and Mary Pennell, and we gave them the tour of Barra and also sent them on the Colima tour that we had already done. Then we went to Tenacatita for a few days and just lazed about on the boat. I took them on the jungle tour in the estuary and this time we saw 2 small crocodiles. They were about 2 feet long and I am sure that there was a bigger mother lurking about somewhere.
We went to La Manzanilla in the early morning and had coffee and breakfast and then toured the town ending at the fenced off lagoon where the big crocs live. Back on the boat after a successful surf landing and launching Penny announced that I had earned my surf landing merit badge. You may remember a previous post where I had dumped her in the water head first on the way to dinner.
Barra and Tenacatita are two very special places as the living is easy and uncomplicated and the weather great. The panga water taxi rides to town, Valentines dinner at La Chinita with good friends and generally just hanging out.
We had a party of 8 for valentine’s dinner at La Chinta with the Delaney’s, MacDonald’s, Pennell’s and Joe and Allison Elliott. We met Joe in La Paz and he has been single handing down from the bay area with his wife and daughters flying in to meet him on school vacations. To say Joe fell in love with Barra would be an understatement and to prove his love to both Barra and Ally, Joe purchased 2 waterfront lots on the canal and plans to build a house. We were able to visit a house that the architect/contractor was just finishing before dinner and after dinner we took a tour of Joe’s new lots. They are in a beautiful location and the first thing Joe is doing is building a floating dock and dredging to 8 feet on his 60 feet of waterfront so he can dock his boat there. He will stay on his boat during construction and the whole project should be fun to follow. Joe promised updates and hopefully it will turn out as he hopes. We can’t wait to return for the open house!