May thru July 2017

Hello again Family and Friends
on our last blog update we forgot to mention we took a bus from La Cruz, Mx to Guadalajara back in February to meet our good friends Cindy  and Mark from mv Delta Swizzler and John and Linda from tennis in La Paz. We had a great time.



            
Mark with new friend                 Linda and Eric for a coffee break and Indian pole twirlers
So now we will continue where we left off on our last blog starting in May

  
We had a lobster dinner party on our boat with 4 other boats in La Cruz great fun. Amazingly enough there were actually 4  boats home. We sailed out of La Cruz on April 22,2017. Our first stop was Bahia Chamela next stop was Tenacatita.


        
Chamela                                     Tenacatita beach                    local girl selling her wares
from Renacatita we sailed to Bara De Navidad and will be here thru hurricane season with a short visit to renew our 6 month visa. We took a trip down to Guatamala in order to do just that.

  

  
tennis courts we play 3 times a week at the resort               one of the Pools we swim in


            
Our side trip to Guatemala going across the boarder                      Guatemala Jungles

             
Guatemala market place    We had a summer solstice party on tenth floor of Grand Bay Resort in Bara Navidad

                  
Bus trip to La Manzanilla to the Croc refuge


  
A million dollar wedding at the Grand Bay Resort it was spectacular


This is the world class golf course we walk around and pick up free mango´s


While on our trip to Guatemala we met a wonderful man named Fidel who invited us out to his 9 hector orchid farm where we learned so much about orchids, for instance, we never knew vanilla was an orchid. We then invited his whole family out to our boat for a sail.  They had never been on a sail boat before. It was a great time.

         
Saw spotted dolphins            Fidel and wife Elsa,  and their kids having fun on the paddle boards

          
Eric´s brother Tim came to visit. We had welcome and unwelcome visitors that week.

        
During hurricane season we have a lot of thunder and lightning storms. This is a Tree Swallow nest that was built in our mizzen boom. Cute 3 eggs and they all hatched.


                      
re-caulking decks while waiting out hurricane season                     tree swallow at sunrise


 We will close for now and bring you up to date in a few months. We hope you enjoy our blog



                                      Love all, Pati and Eric