Monday February 7, 2022 Barra de Navidad
Our time in the Barra de Navidad has been bittersweet. We’ve enjoyed meeting some new boaters. We met Del and Barbie on Timeless and Bill and Susan Birschoff on a Trawler that has a long name beginning with A. We got to see old friends, Steve and Denny on Brendan, Walt and Shelley on Dune, Greg and Christine on Sonrisa, Eric and Kim on Gladiator. This has been Cruisers Week here with all kinds of festivities and a race on Friday. We didn’t participate in any of the activities. Neil continues to be sick, quite lethargic. I’ve gone to water aerobics and on two fabulous walks (one to secret beach and the other to the point at the end of the peninsula). I went to the Thursday market in Barra and took a cab ride to Melague to shop at the Hawaii store. We got Neil to a local doctor who gave him meds for acid reflux. Neil had a telemedicine call with our San Diego doctor who recommended meds for a stomach bug. Yet, Neil continues to have no energy. So…we made the hard decision of going back to the states earlier than originally planned. We have a flight out of Puerto Vallarta on 2/16. We will stay with the Miller’s for 2 weeks while Neil sees the doctor. We will leave our boat here in Barra de Navidad under the care of Pancho. He will oversee the bottom cleaning, repair of the generator, and any other boat needs that arise. While here in the marina we got our laundry done. We had all of our fuel pumped out because it appears to be dirty. Sadly the fuel clogged up the generator filter and that may be part of the reason it isn’t working. On Friday we motored over to the fuel dock and spent close to $1000 to fill up the tank again. Tomorrow, Sunday, 2/13, I plan on going to church at Costalegre Community in Melague. Denny Pepper is going to join me.
Saturday February 11, 2022
We motored over and got fuel, a lot of fuel.
We have a 160 gallon tank, and two 5 gallon Jerry cans on deck. The tank had been pumped out completely, we put both the jerry cans of diesel in our tank, and one more 5 gallon jerry can to make it more likely our fuel pump would get a suction and then motored over and put 161 gallons in to our tank.
Oh and the cost? 15396 pesos for the fuel plus a 15% dockage fee (getting fuel at a fuel dock rather than in town) 2309.4, (17705) and 3% if you pay with a credit card 531.15. If we chose to pay with USD then the conversion rate is 18 pesos to the dollar ($983.61). We paid in cash in Pesos 17705 (about $861 US at the current rate).
Sunday February 12, 2022
We started prepping the boat to leave it for a month. We arranged with Pancho to watch the boat and fix the generator while we were gone. Also to polish the stainless and the boat and clean the bottom. This was quite an effort for me, as I am really sick.
Pancho drove us to the Puerto Vallarta airport and we flew back to Tijuana on 2/16. we walked across the border using the CBX, it costs $20 US per person, but it was 48 minutes from when the wheels touched down until we were standing on the curb in California waiting for our ride.
From here we enter our normal no blog updates while in the states. But, I will tell the story of this sickness on the next post.