January thru April 2017

Hola Family and Friends,  We sailed January 24th, 2017 with our good friends Ard from Santa Cruz and with John and Linda who live in La Paz. We sailed 240 nautical  miles and it took us 42 hours of rough sea´s for 2 days and 2 nights. We arrived in Mazatlan, La Isla Marina. 

this is the resort we stayed at the harbor.  We enjoyed our stay inn Mazatlan especially old Town

Aztec Dancer´s

Sunrise in the harbor

We left Mazatlan on Feb.1,2017 93n.miles  overnight to Isla Isabel Mexico´s Galapagos Island. Beautiful little Island with lots of wild life so tame you can walk right up to them and they won´t run or fly away.

Blue footed Boobies

 

Male Frigate  Bird

A Baby Frigate I almost stepped on totally unafraid of people

We sailed another 40n.miles to San Blas, Matanchen Bay arriving at 16:45 pm, very tired. We only stayed on Isla Isabel for a few hours because our rudder was damaged and we had limited steering.



Shearwater                       Our freinds on Rainbow Gypsy  the beach on Matachen Bay



   
River tour of the San Blas Croc´s and restaurant on the river where you could swim
We left San Blas on Deb. 7th at 12:30 pm to sail 22n.miles and arrived at 16:30pm to Chacala.




          
The Beach at Chacala with a turtle release happening     the anchorage in Chacala


       
Great lunch on the beach in Chacala                              Down Town of Chacala still dirt roads



         
Cherry and Alec Rainbow Gypsy    Beach restaurant
Next we sailed on Feb. 9th to La Cruz in Banderas  Bay 45 n.miles. We spent a lot of time in La Cruz and Puerto Vallarta.


       


                      
Hiking around Puerto Vallarta





                 
just us again                    veiw from the top of Puerto Vallarta  and a wonderful mural on a dirt trail



our freinds with whom we went 8 miles hiking down the coast to a waterfall. A little something I picked up on the beach.




                
  along the tail                              another beach along the way        we made it to the waterfall


                     
went surfing with friends Megan and Jonah on sv Orion in  Punta Mita. pic of beach






   
Eric´s temporary fix to rudder for steerage into dry dock. Rudder post broke and I know he can fix it.




   

          

8 days in dry dock but we got her back in shape and bottom painted.





               
Becky, Armando, Megan, Adriana, and Rylie arrived for their annual visit on April 10th. We had a great time. Megan and Adi had a great time on the ocean obstacle course in back round.



           
we visited Salulito, La Cruz, Bucerias and thier last day at a wonderful resort in La Cruz.