Ahhhh. We have heard about this bay for years from our Juneau cruising friends who have made this trip ahead of us. It meets all the expectations we held for it, although the mental image we held didn't match. It's hard to imagine something you have never seen before. The anchorage at Tenacatita really doesn't look all that much different than the other anchorages along the Mexican west coast. Long curving sandy beach, palapa restaurants along the shore, rugged rocky points at either end of the bay, and lush green uplands.
Some of the differences in this anchorage are the clearness of the water, an estuary with easy access for dinghies or kayaks, and panga taxi service availability across the bay to La Manzanilla and all if it's treats.

We spent a week enjoying all this bay has to offer, and will be making an other stop on our way back up north to the Sea.