Friday December 27 — Continued from yesterday… At 0940, we turned into the channel into Puerto Chiapas/Puerto Madero.
If our understanding is correct, Puerto Chiapas is the south side of the channel, which has a large navy base and the marina. Puerto Madero is the north side of the channel, which has a small fishing village. This is a photo of Puerto Madero taken from the main channel.
Sunrise on Thursday, December 19
Reports were that, while the water here at the marina was clean, the salinity could vary, so sometimes it wasn’t drinkable. This morning, Eric tested the water and was excited that the salinity was low enough to fill the tanks. As he was setting up the water pre-filter, he shouted to Christi and Keith to stop doing school work and to come outside. We saw the famous French Baker boat was in the marina. We flagged them down, and they came over to our boat so we could buy pastries. The pastries were delicious. We could get used to fresh pastries delivered to our door every morning.
Prior to dawn, the full moon was made opaque by cloud cover.
In the morning, a diver came to do the bottom cleaning. He removed the kelp from the propellor.
Continued from yesterday… after we toured the chocolate museum and tasted the free samples, we stocked up on chocolate (chocolate is an important passage food, especially in rough seas).
We headed south to the Our Lady of Guadelupe Parish, which was a block inland. It was built in the 1930s, and probably the most unique thing about this church is that there is a crown on top of the middle tower instead of a cross. However, there are crosses on the smaller two towers that flank it on each side.
Since we had some time to kill before La Iguana opened for dinner, we decided to check out the new Naval Museum on the malecon. The admission fee was $3.00 for adults and $2.50 for students.
Continue readingSunrise on Saturday, December 14:
We started the day off with morning chores. Eric was convinced that there was still kelp or a line caught in the propellor, but none of us were particularly eager to get in the water to look.
Eric attached an underwater video camera on a boat hook and stuck it in the water. Eric was vindicated when the footage showed that there was something tangled in the propellor!
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