No moss is going to grow on us. Mold and mildew yes, but we are moving much to fast for moss. We left zTown yesterday. We didnt want to. We had met up with old and new friends and wanted to spend more time. In addition, I had slept in the cockpit (because it was so friggin hot) and woke up with a broken wing. A frozen and extremely painful left shoulder. But the wing seemed to be getting better, partly due to some cruising friends and their medicine cabinet, and the weather window was closing so off we went.





The day was perfect, beautiful day scapes with fog drifting in and around the mountains along the way. Did you know all those misty peaks could be hiding pyramids? Why dont they dig them up?





Mid morning the sea turned to glass, so I headed for my newly made "Dolphin Hunter Seat". It's a highly technical item, made of mesh, brass eyelets and string. But it's the perfect place to wait for Flipper. I wasn't there for even four minutes and he shows up with his wife and children and the cousins. Very nice of them to be on time.
































Technically, Flipper was a bottle-nose dolphin and these dolphin are, you guessed it; Spotted Dolphin. They are smaller, weighing in around 250 lbs when fully grown. They are born without the spots and start getting them around adolescence between 6 and 10 years. That's also when they start smoking and hanging around on corners. Kidding, just trying to make sure you're paying attention.























I wasn't exactly well on this trip, after Flipper and the kids left, I spent a fair amount of time in the head (sorry, the truth hurts me more than you). The broken wing was apparently just a for-runner, and I was ill for the rest of the trip. Dois was a stud and held up my side of the boat as well as his. We are in Manzanillo at anchorage in Santiago Bay. We are going to sit here for a couple of days and hopefully get well enough to do some snorkeling at Bahia Carazal.

We'll re-provision here for the next leg of the trip up to Puerto Vallarta. It's a bit of a headache from here, but what are you going to do? We'll have to find a "safe" place for the dinghy on the beach and then hike up to the highway. There we'll grab a bus into town. We'll take a taxi back because it's hard to maneuver all those groceries onto a bus, and the taxi will get us near a beach and we'll schlep our supplies back down to the dinghy and eventually... the boat. Don't you wish you were us?

So what is it... a gaggle, a herd, a pack or a school of dolphin? I vote for a gaggle.





Peace.