We got up around 8 am, made coffee and called the French baker. This is an incredible service! Within about 10 minutes of us calling him we had a knock on the hull as he was there with a very good supply of fresh baked goods. Renee’ had a quiche and I had an apple tart, we also got a baguette. All for a very reasonable price (170 pesos, or about $8.50 USD). At 9 am, I listened to the net and Renee’ took the laundry in. Plans for today include going into town and getting a haircut.
We walked for awhile, checked the map, and walked for awhile, then checked the GPS, and then walked for awhile (sometimes in semi circles), then asked someone and continued to walk for awhile. Then asked someone else and then we saw a paper/office store, we have been looking for one so we could get a better envelope to hold the boat documents, so we got that taken care of and then walked for awhile. Renee’ checked the GPS, and I crossed the street and looked down where we were headed, and found it! The Port Captain’s office is in a residential district nowhere near the water. In any case we got checked in and the port captain checked us out leaving on Monday after Easter, so we don’t have to go back! Then it was look for a place to get a haircut for both of us.
Mr. Google likes to take us on weird routs, this was a zig zag through a residential district and eventually (at least we were walking towards the water taxi and downtown) we found the shop. They were closed, but the window was open and when Renee’ asked she opened the shop and did a very good job on our hair and my beard. Afterwards, we stopped for lunch then grabbed the water taxi back to the boat.
After Naps, and relaxing for a bit, we changed into swim suits and washed the boat, boy was it filthy! That took about an hour and half, when we got done, it was time for Renee’ to go get the laundry and me to run the water maker. The water pressure here is the highest I have found in Mexico, good for washing the boat, not so good for the water maker, I have to throttle the supply quite a bit to keep the supply pressure on scale, it is almost high enough to run through the membrane with out the high pressure pump.
We ran the water maker from about 4:30 to 8:30, at about 30 gallons per hour, 120 gallons of water for a week.
We had company after dinner, Elton Lee from the church we went to on Sunday came over after his swim in the bay. He might join us for the sail back from Tenacatita next Saturday.
