The sunrise on Friday, December 20 was muted by clouds.
After schoolwork, morning chores, and a visit from the French baker, we went to pool for a few hours.
In the early afternoon, the company that handles a lot of the boat maintenance in the basin (ie. washing, bottom cleanings, etc) threw a Christmas party for the cruisers. That was a nice opportunity to meet fellow cruisers and get good information for our upcoming travels.
Continue readingSunrise 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.
Our last sunrise in La Cruz de Huanacaxtle. on Tuesday, December 17
Eric checked out with the port captain and the marina office. We did all of the last-minute things to get Kosmos ready for sea, and we untied at noon for our 22-hour passage.
We are happy to report that the seas were mostly calm. In Bahia de Banderas we had some small head seas. When we went around Cabo Corrientes, we were braced for bad conditions since that patch of water was notorious for being confused and turbulent, but it was actually pretty good conditions. Beyond Cabo Corrientes, the swell was from the rear at long intervals and there was little wind chop.
Continue readingPrior 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…. We were shocked to see that there was even an area with a cemetery! This is one of dozens of headstones
There were more walkways that explored the outer areas of the gardens. We were warned that these outer trails were long and could be arduous.
First, we did the Vanilla Trail, which was a loop that had several offshoots from the main trail. We may have missed one or two of the offshoots, but we did most of them. There weren’t signs with plant names, so we weren’t sure if this was natural rainforest or if non-native species had been planted. It was hilly, with many sets of staircases and a suspension bridge.
