Saturday, 09
May 2015
Tenacatita
Great
passage, well… very good….. great would have wind for the whole trip but 14
hours of sailing was good. We left about
10:00 am and dropped the hook about 24 hours later. Stars, moon and lots of
phosphorescence made for a pretty night. Saw dolphins, small rays and a couple
of turtles.
Palapa back in the coconut grove |
Tenacatita
is a double bay just west of Barra Navidad/Melaque and 31 miles west of
Manzanillo. The east lobe of Tenactita is more protected and less developed.
The west end of that bay has private resort but the west corner behind a
headland had a palapa restaurant at the mouth of a mangrove lined estuary and
is the best protected anchorage. Being late in the season, we shared the
anchorage with only one other boat, Georgia B from Astoria.
The beach
often is a surf landing and after a quick dinghy trip in, we decided to let the
tide and surf calm down before we entered. Back to the boat to relax after the
night passage and then in the afternoon we again checked out the estuary mouth.
Not too late to turn around..... |
We spent an hour and a half riding up into the mangrove with the channel
narrowing until we were in a verdant green pipe, Lexi and Mags watching for
cocodrilos. I was concerned about the obvious falling tide and reports I had
read about the estuary being more shallow since a hurricane a few years ago. We
finally turned after seeing numerous bird species but the elusive logs with
eyes evaded us yet again. A fun trip.
Where is Tuan Jim? |
Dinner at
the palapa was excellent. Tenacatita is noted for its local favorite “rollo de
mar”, much like chicken cordon bleu but is a fish fillet wrapped around shrimp
wrapped with a slice of bacon and covered in a rich almond cream sauce. To die
for. Sorry no photo.
With our
long delay in La Cruz we will make Tanacatita a one day stop and head for
Iztapa/Zihuatanejo about 10:00 am tomorrow.
And you thought you could leave the estuary - not through theses mangrove roots...... |
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