Leaving Paradise Village

January 7, 2009

Today is our last day in Paradise Village. We are checking out tomorrow and heading over to La Cruz to spend a couple of days. Then we will head to the southern end of the bay to visit Yelapa. There is supposed to be a great walk through an old fashioned Mexican village where no one has a car – transportation is by donkey or foot – to a freshwater pool that is fed by a waterfall. We’ll stay there a few days and then head around the point out of Banderas Bay toward Chemala. We’ll stay there a few weeks and then to Tenacatita where we’ll stay at least a week. None of these places have internet cafes so we will probably be out of communicado for a couple of weeks. We will be in Barra in time to meet those of you that are planning to visit during the February break. We may arrive early and anchor in the harbor since everyone is telling us that there is now way we can take a month to get from Banderas Bay to Barra. Everyone who has been here before says that we can probably find places to stop to fill a couple of weeks but not an entire month. So …. as soon as we land somewhere where we can post a blog we will.

We will miss all the great friends we’ve met in Paradise Village, LawnBoy from Washington aboard Wades Away, Anton and Rita aboard Royal Albatross and most of all the Pond family on Qualchan. In some cases we probably will see some of these folks again as we head south. We sure hope so.