Just 31 miles southeast of Chamela Bay is Tenacatita Bay. Its more protected from wind and waves than is neighbor to the north therefore cruisers spend more time here and there are activities sponsored by and for cruisers. The sail down was mostly a motorboat ride. The coast here is beautiful but it was a hazy day and because of rocks up to a mile offshore scattered about we stayed at least 1-½ miles offshore so we didn't see much detail.
There is a cruisers radio net in the morning here where we can ask for local advise, get weather and tide info, and get to know the cruisers in the anchorages. The net is combined with the one for Navidad Bay, which is 15 miles down the coast from here and is even a larger cruiser hangout. We learned the first day that we can get everything we really need here plus it's a beautiful, protected, tropical place and not crowed so we think we may stay for a week or two.
Tomorrow, just after the net, along with friends on Cabaret II we plan to take the "jungle ride' this is a trip up a brackish stream for several miles to a lagoon. There is a small settlement on the lagoon with a small store and a restaurant, which serves a stuffed fish roll that everybody raves about. Much of the stream is completely covered by a canopy of mangrove trees and other jungle plants. Viewing the various birds is supposed to be worth the trip. We need some fresh veggies, eggs etc. that the store is supposed to stock.
Not your typical drive to the supermarket and lunch down Oracle Road but it sounds like a lot of fun.
Tenacatita Bay is a beautiful place. Surrounded by jungle clad hills and one massive rock that has a dozen or two houses near the top facing the bay. There are other huge homes looking over the bay and at least one large hotel complex. We and the other cruisers are tucked into a corner of the bay that is only open to the east, which doesn't permit any significant waves to reach Vagari.
The town of Tenacatita is on the southeast shore but its not readily accessible to cruisers because of surf on the beach is usually to large for us to land in our dinghy.
We spent Monday morning doing odd jobs aboard Vagari. I fixed a salon light fixture switch, which was broken when we purchased her. I finally found the part this summer. We finished polishing the stainless steel. Usually we have that done before leave our homeport but this year none of the dock guys offered to wash or polish Vagari. Most of the dock boys are gone for some unknown reason. Rhea polished the plastic windows in the cockpit enclosure. I worked on cleaning the very back of the hull. It never gets cleaned properly because we always dock front in. About 1:30 PM we said what are we doing, working!
So we jumped in the dinghy and headed for the palapa (stick building on the beach covered with palm branches with a sand floor) restaurant. They will also do your laundry, fill you diesel jerry cans, sell drinkable water in five-gallon jugs and sell ice. Well usually, but they won't have ice for two more days and the laundry is a three day turnaround because…?
We signed up for all those services; two or three days don't make much difference when you are anchored in paradise. What they did have was a delicious lunch. Hard to chose between "shrimp to the pleasure", "fish fried or to the steam", " clam of season to" or "fillet of fish to the pleasure" and some I really didn't understand. In the end we had three appetizers plus and order of garlic fish with tortillas and greens. Very good and fresh. Worth a return trip when the ice, laundry and diesel are in. The food with two rounds of soda and five gallons of water with tip was $15 US.
After on couple mile walk on the beach we went back to Vagari to rest up for another day. Tomorrow we may take another trip up the river.
We spent several more days at Tenacatita doing the same; another jungle ride with lunch another lunch at the local Palapa, beach games with other cruisers and plenty of boat chores.
We signed up for a potluck Christmas dinner in a hotel at our next stop via the radio. So after a week we are moving along. We hope we can spend some more time here later in the season.
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