We finally made the break on Wed. around noon and had a great sail to Yelapa. We found Ned, a wonderful guy from Seattle, whom we had met before, and his dad was with him. He is 86 years old and has leased some land there; he has convinced Ned to help him build a house right on the river. WoW! How cool is that at such an age. We enjoyed "happy hour" with them at their apartment overlooking the awesome bay and then went to dinner at a great local cafe called Tacos y Mas. Ricardo, who is the kid who created the few moorings in the bay, picked us up from Sidewinder and took us back that evening. It was so awesome to be back there, and I know we will return some day. Maybe that's a place we could all meet sometime.
Anyway, yes, we safely made it around Cabo Corrientes the next morning without a hitch although we were expecting NorthWesterly winds to kick in and it was a south wind, on our nose, the entire day. We tacked our way down the coast and it took about 20 hours to make it to Bahia de Chamela. We arrived yesterday morning at dawn, anchored next to Sunsation, and had a lovely day of being back on the water. The South wind continued to blow most of the day, which is a bit strange for this time of the year. I swam (yippee!), read, napped and enjoyed the quiet one more time. The all nighter put us back into the sailing mode although we had to motor most of the night when the wind died. We had dinner with Sharon and John on their cat last night, and I think the plan is to motor over to the islands and do a little snorkling while it is glassy this morning. I think we will leave for the next anchorage, Careyes, tomorrow morning, and continue the Gold Coast adventure down to Tenacatita the following day. It is supposed to get more and more beautiful as we go south, and I am looking forward to our explorations.
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