January 2022
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The Anchorage Was Full Again |
After nearly two years of peace and
quiet, it seemed like anyone who had ever been to La Cruz (and some
new people who just had to go SOMEWHERE) descended on our little
pueblo in January. Suddenly, we needed reservations to eat anywhere.
Two weekends in January were taken up
by the Vallarta Cup series of sailboat races. Wings won
our class and we were happy about that.
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Racing on Wings |
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Sunrise at the Glorieta |
My friend, Blair, who had always been a
serious dog person, was adopted by an abandoned cat in the marina.
She greeted him each morning and began demanding food. When Blair
sailed south to Barra de Navidad, he arranged for people to feed her.
After trying diligently to find her a home, he eventually packed her
up and took her home to San Diego where she immediately made herself
at home in their house. All plans to give her to a lonely neighbor
went out the window as Remy, as some boat kids named her, bonded with
Blair's wife.
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Barry, Mary Nell & Rene |
Mary Nell and I had resumed playing
music at the Britannia and were joined, in January, by our friend,
Barry Spaeth.
February 2022
The second week of February, I left La
Cruz to sail south on the Jeanneau 52.2, Scout. The
skipper, Greg, had two students aboard for a coastal cruising class.
I am usually crew on Scout and
it was odd to just sit back and let the students do everything.
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Sailing on Scout |
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Anchored in Chamela |
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Dawn in Tenacatita |
We spent the first night in Chamela and then continued on to Tenacatita. The students spent a lot of time working on the book portion of their class, but we did spend an afternoon sailing in Tenacatita Bay. We managed to find the time to put the dinghy in the water and take the students on the jungle cruise to the aquarium where we ate lunch on the beach.
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The Lagoon at the End of the Jungle Cruise |
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Dinghy Landing at the Lagoon |
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Lunch Spot at the Aquarium |
After a couple of days in Tenacatita, we continued on to Barra, where the students finished their class and left the boat.
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Scout at Anchor |
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The Grand Bay Hotel and Marina in Barra |
We stayed in Barra
for Superbowl, as Greg liked to go to the Superbowl party at the
Grand Bay Hotel. I took the opportunity to take the bus into Melaque
to visit my friend, Barbra, from Benicia, who was living there. She
picked me up in her adorable, yellow golf cart and took me to see her
new apartment. Then we went back into town and had dinner at a
beachfront restaurant with nice live music before she returned me to
the bus station.
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Barbra in Her Yellow Golf Cart |
Greg and I returned
to the restaurant, the following day, for Valentine's Day dinner. Being Monday
and Valentine's Day, it was difficult to find a place to eat, so we
ended up at the same place. The next day, I caught a ride back
to La Cruz with my friends, Tim and Charity, who had driven down for
a weekend getaway.
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Rene & Mary Nell at Ballena Blanca |
Mary Nell and I
continued to play music, but drifted away from the Brittania as it
got louder and more crowded. Mary Nell started singing with a group
at the Ballena Blanca and we played with Barry for a lunchtime crowd
at the Octopus' Garden.
A week
after I returned from Barra, I took the bus back down there to help
Brad return White Wind to
La Cruz. We skipped Tenacatita, as I was in a hurry to get back in
time for the Wednesday race, but stopped in Chamela where we spent a
very pleasant day cruising around in the dinghy and listening to live
music from somewhere on the beach. I fell in love with a little
Hobie trimaran that someone was sailing around and dreamed of
acquiring one for myself. We left that night so as to round Cabo
Corrientes at dawn and were back in the slip in La Cruz by
mid-afternoon. |
Sunset from White Wind |
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