Anchored in Tenacatita Bay
21 March 2008 | Tenacatita Bay
Jan
A very pleasant place to be anchored. We had quite a trip from Chamela. Sailing in 4-5 knots winds making way at about 1.5 knots was great fun! For a couple of hours. We actually got to see sea turtles bobbing in the water since it was pretty calm and they would just sort of float on by! We passed on the anchorage at Careyes, as it had too many power boats and lots of rocks and surf..just too close for comfort..so on we decided to press on to Tenacatita Bay and finally dropped anchor at 6:30pm. We met up with Tahoma (Linda & Bob) who had us over for dinner the 1st night and boy were we tired the next day... The famed "Friday dinghy raft up" was held at 5pm with lots of appetizers and meeting of new and old friends. 10 boats in all while there were 30 boats all anchored in the bay. On Saturday we took our dinghy and went on the "Jungle river trip". It definitely is a must see trip as we saw alot of herons, egrets and navigated a narrow river with vines and mangrove roots and other water trees canopying over head. Thankfully no crocodiles or snakes! The little village Tenacatita has lots of beach front palapa cantinas (so that's something different...haha!) and of course being Easter week, hundreds of Mexicans on holiday, camping and having fun in the surf. An easy hike to the top of a vista to look down on 3 beautiful beaches from one point! Of course today is Easter Sunday, so a definite reason to have happy hour! Tahoma (Bob & Linda) and Sugata (Susan & Todd) joined us and we had a great time catching up! We decided to stay one more day (Monday) so Linda & Bob, Jim & Jan (from Manana) and us went on the jungle river ride one more time in search of a tour of a reeso distillery.... We did however spot a baby crocodile in the mangrove roots just sitting in the water, watching us. It was about 2ft long and stood very still. If it wasn't for the panga driver ahead of us, we would have missed him! Once we got to Tenacatita we couldn't find the tour to the distillery so Linda & I went snorkeling in what is called the "Aquarium" in the outer lobe of the bay. The water was a beautiful turquoise blue but a pretty chilly, 68 degrees... We saw quite a few beautiful fish...vibrant blue ones and white polka dotted ones, yellow striped ones and a couple fish that just looked right into your face mask! Even a "ferret fish" and a "tiger eel", at least Linda knew the names of those. The surf was pretty swirly and after 30 minutes we decided that was enough...at least I tried it...But I may have messed up a good thing...Rob wants me to help clean the bottom of the boat, now that I can handle "colder" water!!!! But since he now has a "scuba tank hooka set-up" which only has 1 hose, I might still be safe. He did clean the bottom on Sunday, as we seem to have to do it every 2 weeks down here in "fertile" water!!! Our last trip back down the river was uneventful but still fun. We caught up friends on "Mira" (Dwight & Jan) as they happened to anchor right behind us while were gone and later had happy hour at Tahoma. Our day was complete as we actually got a picture of the resident dolphin...Chip... He's been around every day that we've been here! That night the sky was just filled with a zillion stars... each one we consider to be our lucky star that we're able to be on this trip of a life time!!! Sure glad we stayed the extra day... Tuesday, on to Barra de Navidad...
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