It turns out Huatulco is a big stop for cruise ships - who knew? It also turned out to be arts and crafts day - Kai was ready with his own coconut lid. The fun never stops. Now excuse me while I get something out of my eye with and ice pick. Until later ...
Another thing about our navigator he can't walk by a map without pointing out where we are. We laughed for hours. One thing to point out on this map, when we go through the Panama Canal, we will be east of Miami. Our route will take us north to Belize and around the east side of Cuba. Cuba! Habana, hmmmm ....
Finally on land in La Crucecita (Crew-say-she-ta), and here goes Kai again chasing after Bimbo's. He just loves their bread, or maybe he just loves chasing trucks, not sure. I know this, if you scratch him behind his ears and he gets all kind of frisky, but I digress.
This was a hairy moment. We've just entered this harbor after 3 days at sea from Zihuatanejo nearing Huatulco (Wha-tool-co). We skipped over Acapulco because we're avoiding big cities. Night was coming on quickly and this harbor (Puerto Angel) was listed in our guide book as a "lovely little anchorage". Not so if you have southerly swells - and we did. This harbor was rockin' and rollin', so what do you do? You turn around and head back out to sea for the night which sometimes is a tough call as you want to drop anchor and chill. This wasn't a tough call for us as our depth meter wasn't working and all boats in the harbor were bouncing. That evening we ran into all the dolphins Kai wrote about, so it turned out perfect.
Ahhh ... the little green man. It turns out to be a broken depth meter - rather important if you want to answer questions such as "will I hit bottom?" My bad, but I did draw the lines for the "eyes" - pretty cool. Fortunately we had a spare depth meter and our intrepid marine electrician/navigator/weatherman/bimbo chaser got everything back in working order.
It turns out Huatulco is a big stop for cruise ships - who knew? It also turned out to be arts and crafts day - Kai was ready with his own coconut lid. The fun never stops. Now excuse me while I get something out of my eye with and ice pick. Until later ...
Another thing about our navigator he can't walk by a map without pointing out where we are. We laughed for hours. One thing to point out on this map, when we go through the Panama Canal, we will be east of Miami. Our route will take us north to Belize and around the east side of Cuba. Cuba! Habana, hmmmm ....
Finally on land in La Crucecita (Crew-say-she-ta), and here goes Kai again chasing after Bimbo's. He just loves their bread, or maybe he just loves chasing trucks, not sure. I know this, if you scratch him behind his ears and he gets all kind of frisky, but I digress.
This was a hairy moment. We've just entered this harbor after 3 days at sea from Zihuatanejo nearing Huatulco (Wha-tool-co). We skipped over Acapulco because we're avoiding big cities. Night was coming on quickly and this harbor (Puerto Angel) was listed in our guide book as a "lovely little anchorage". Not so if you have southerly swells - and we did. This harbor was rockin' and rollin', so what do you do? You turn around and head back out to sea for the night which sometimes is a tough call as you want to drop anchor and chill. This wasn't a tough call for us as our depth meter wasn't working and all boats in the harbor were bouncing. That evening we ran into all the dolphins Kai wrote about, so it turned out perfect.
Ahhh ... the little green man. It turns out to be a broken depth meter - rather important if you want to answer questions such as "will I hit bottom?" My bad, but I did draw the lines for the "eyes" - pretty cool. Fortunately we had a spare depth meter and our intrepid marine electrician/navigator/weatherman/bimbo chaser got everything back in working order.
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