Thursday, 9
April, 2015
Still in La
Cruz and our schedule is in Limbo, where ever that place is!!!
We are hoping
parts are leaving San Diego today but thus far, have not been able confirm
this.
We have done
some side trips to neighbouring towns, Bucerias and Sayulita. The beaches at
both are heavily touristed and have tons of the little souvenir palapas so we
spend most of our time saying “No, esta bien gracias” and moving on. Sayulita
is a pretty location that often has a good surf break hence its sudden
popularity. Buscerias is much closer to La Cruz and is much less of a tourist
place with a lot of businesses available. We finally found the time to go to a
printer and downloaded a picture of Kanilela at Isla Isabel and took a picture
of Mags and me, so we now have 2 sided boat cards. We have only been talking
about this since Vancouver.
Excitement
in the anchorage this morning when a derelict power boat’s anchor rode parted
and it drifted into one of the cruising sailboats. A call went out on the radio
and several people arrived quickly, as did the Port Captain. The boat has been
re-anchored, but close to shore so if it goes again, none of us are in line.
Being at
anchor, our HF/HAM radio receives much better, marinas have a lot of
interference. As I mentioned before, this is a popular departure point for the “Puddle
Jump”, the trip across to the Marquesas in French Polynesia and they run a
Puddle Jump Net every night for the boats to check in giving their location,
speed and wind/wave conditions on the radio. Because some had left before we
arrived here, they are already arriving in Nuku Hiva. Our friends Dina and
Malcolm on Good As Gold reported their position as 5 degrees South latitude, I
forget the longitude, last night, so they are 75 to 80% of the way there. All
good on board. We last saw them over in the Sea of Cortez so it was great
hearing them. Malcolm’s signal came in really clear although lots of boats had
their reports relayed by intermediate boats. Several boats have been crossing the Equator in the last few days, so lots of excitement onboard their boats.
Life on
Kanilela is great but we would really like to get going soon…..
