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Tenacatita

We left Chemala with Anna on 2/2/11 headed for Tenacatita.  On the way we headed into Paraiso to take a look. It was beautiful, but the swell was way too big to be a comfortable anchorage.
Heading into Paraiso (photo by Joe Upton on Anna)

Navigating  here is a little more difficult than it is at home.  The GPS charts and the paper charts are inaccurate so we have to go by waypoints (which often show up on land on the chartplotter), radar and visuals. 

Tenacatita is a beautiful big bay with a great walking/swimming beach, a river to dinghy up (complete with crocs). There used to be the village of Tenacatita in the next beautiful bay at the end of the river trip, but there was a land dispute last year and the village ended up getting bulldozed and a resort is going to go in. Very sad to see.  The video is of the resident dolphins in Tenacatita.



We took taxis with both the Anna crew and the Journey crew to La Manzanilla one day, which is  across the bay from Tenacatita.  Since we had all been wifi deprived for awhile we all took our computers. We took up a large portion of La Risa internet café!
Chrissy and Jim at one table, Joe and ML(Anna) at another, Kathy and Mike(Anna)
 and Jeff and Dori (Journey) at another.

Friday night there is a weekly dinghy happy hour raft up. There were approximately 25 boats in the bay that night and most everyone joined the raft up.
One section of the Friday night raft up.
We left Tenacatita at 10am on 2/7/11 and arrived in Barra de Navidad at 12:30 – a nice short hop.
Right now we are at La Casa de mi Abuela in Barra de Navidad sitting in the shade of an umbrella just off of the main street eating a cheeseburger!

Comments

  1. s/v King's PrideFebruary 9, 2011 at 4:35 PM

    Hope you two enjoyed your Rolo Del Mar dinner after a great dinghy ride up from Tenecatita.

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  2. KelseyEvansFebruary 12, 2011 at 10:30 AM

    Sounds like a great time! Love and miss you guys.

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  3. Beth and JohnFebruary 12, 2011 at 7:21 PM

    Great job on the blog! The video clip of the dolphins makes me want to hop a plane and join you all. Were you able to swim with the dolphins? And the raft up looks inviting. Are most of the cruisers pictured in the raft up retired folks, or laid off, or just out for a few months?

    Miss you guys! Hope you have a love-filled Valentine's Day!

    Bethie

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