Adios La Cruz

After spending over four weeks in La Cruz, enjoying all the town offers, live music at several venues almost every night of the week, social life with other cruisers and the convenience of being base a full-service marina, we are once again completely on our own -- at anchor just outside the La Cruz marina. Our last few errands before leaving the dock yesterday were to stop at the fish market to purchase enough fresh fish for at least five meals; also a quick stop at the carniceria organica to buy a whole chicken and some beef for the freezer. As has been our habit, when we left the dock we went out into the bay and sailed for a few hours, getting used to sailing again, enjoying the wind and sense of freedom. We returned to the anchorage to spend the night, catch up on our sleep, and plan our journey south. One of our bargains at the fish market was a whole huachinango (red snapper). Fifteen minutes on the BBQ and we feasted last night with steamed veggies plus our usual salad, and today we had huachinango sandwiches (of course with our homemade "Artisan" bread). One last trip to shore this morning: we dropped off our old dock lines at the fish market, expecting that some of the pescaderos (fishermen) will be able to put them to use (Roy finally finished putting esplices in the new line that we bought before leaving California) and we then walked up the the OXXO (local 7-11 type chain store) to purchase additional time for our modem's data card. We are aiming to arrive in Chemela (96 miles from here) by tomorrow evening, Sunday at the latest. A weather system is brewing that promises some turbulence that we'd prefer to avoid.

~~~ Marlene and Roy ~~_/) ~~