Taking the seanic route
We woke up around 8 am, had coffee and breakfast and discussed plans. Overnight we heard the water pump a couple of times, so we turned it off. I checked this morning, and yes the water heater is leaking again. We have decided that we will put things away this morning and head across to La Cruz and spend two nights in the anchorage, then head to Paradise Village.
No pictures today
We woke up after another rolly night. It is kinda cool this morning. Unlike most of the time we have been this far south. We listened to the net, had breakfast and got it together and went ashore.
To go ashore we called Edgar on channel 10 on the VHF radio and waited for him to come get us. After he picked us up, we went to another boat, S/V Toccata and Marilyn and Sherry joined us, and as it turned out they too were planning to do the hike to the waterfall, so when we got ashore we set out for the waterfall. Pictures below, it was a fairly long hike and took us until around 12:30 or 1 pm to get back to town for lunch. After lunch Reneé and I went back to the boat and the two ladies hiked to the other water fall and checked out the town. We took naps, and then ran the generator for an hour or so while we floated behind the boat. When we had hot water, we took showers and got dressed for dinner at the gathering of cruisers at the Yacht Club. “The Yelapa Yatch Club” (Yes, that is how they spell it here. Dinner was very good, and the entertainment was provided by the violinist that we have heard before here. Finally about 9:30 or so, we called it a night and went back to the dock and called Edgar for a ride. This time there was about 11 of us on board the water taxi back to the boats.
Another rolly night.
Up at 7 am, breakfast listen to the net, bible reading and running the water maker to top of the water tank. I checked the oil and discovered a mess, a bottle of oil had leaked and there was a lot of oil on the floor of the engine room. I spent the time while Reneé was walking over to check us out cleaning the mess up. In any case we got out of the marina by about 1130 and motored across to Yelapa. I am really looking forward to new sails in the fall. Edgar was the guy we were supposed to contact to get a mooring ball, but Richard showed up quite a ways out, and said he worked with Edgar and we should just go with him, but we had already attempted to call Edgar. Shortly after this, Edgar got back to us and asked us to tell Richard that we were with Edgar and he came out and got us on a mooring ball. This is a very cute little town!
We put our swim suits on and floated behind the boat for a bit.
Our time for sailing is quickly coming to an end for this season. We are going to pull into Paradise Village on Tuesday, and that will be it. The schedule for us will be all about getting the boat ready to leave for the summer. We will have to clean the boat, get the dehumidifier running to make sure it works, pack for our trip, get rid of the Gasoline for the outboard, flush the outboard with water, pump out the holding tank and fill with water and then pump out again. (Several times) then replace the vent filter on the holding tank. We will have to get rid of the extra food as well.
We had to go back downtown to pick up the stuff we bought the day before at Oscar’s, but we started with walking around and enjoying the sights. We walked the pier at Playa Los Muertos. We had lunch at the Blue Shrimp. Then got our Tequila and got an Uber back to Zaragoza (the boat parts store) and bought some zincs and a boat brush. Walked back to the boat, changed and went to the pool and hung out for a couple of hours. Dinner at Victor’s which was about 1/3 of the way to the office. They started dinner off with a shot of Tequila and ended it with after dinner drinks (on the house).
After dinner we watched a Western called Albuquerque from about 1948.
Up and breakfast, the Bible reading and then a trip downtown by bus. We started walking on the island towards the beach and found Oscar’s restaurant and Tequila tasting. We decided to spend an hour or so tasting Tequila. Francisco walked us through the process of making tequila from the agave plant. He was very generous with the shots and of course we purchased some products. Good stuff! After that we hiked out to a brewery for lunch, the beer was good and the lunch very good. Then more walking around, and then dinner at an upstairs restaurant. When dinner was over we checked our concert schedule and discovered we needed to be at the show already! So a quick walk over to Act 2 PV and we checked in.
The concert was a tribute to The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac, the band was very good and we really enjoyed it. Then an Uber back to the marina, showers and bed.
