This is where we are.
Wyndham Resorts in Barre Navidad. 60¢ a foot for baja haha race participants. 3 pools and golf course etc. I don't golf. Mark Twain said "Golf is a good walk ruined."
One of the more pleasant aspects of cruising is the kids are reading more. Ben is devouring books and Max has really started to read also. Max is reading Interview with a Vampire and Ben is reading The Lost Hero of the Percy Jackson series. I have recently finished The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (I know, great relaxing book eh?), The Bourne Identity, In the Garden of Beasts (about the US ambassador in Nazi German during the thirties), A Night to Remember, Handling Storms at Sea, Titanic First Accounts, The Twelve by Justin Cronin, Log of the Sea of Cortez by Steinbeck, a bunch of Jack Reacher novels and some others that don't came to mind.
Boat is holding up well and we are having her waxed tomorrow. I did it once in La Cruz and almost erupted into flames. So bloody hot!
Watermaker is chugging along and really <knock wood> the boat is doing good. Lots of preventitive maintenance but nothing more than what I expected.
Let's see. Last post had us in Chamela after the Seahawks victory. Monday, Max went out fishing with one of the guys we met in the rv park. He caught a small dorado and we made sandwiches out of it. Yum! Lots of swimming and playing in the anchorage and on the beach also.
Tuesday Max went out again this time with our buddy Randy who is on his 55' steel trawler Antipodes. They took the Zodiac out and fished for three hours or so. Caught a barracuda.
We left for the next anchorage down which was Parasio around noon or so. Parasio is about 8 miles south of Chamela. 
Beautiful anchorage but rolly as hell. We dropped the anchor in 11' of water on a sand bottom. Just gorgeous water. Warm clear.
Just before the wind kicked in and we started sailing, Max and Sam watching My Pretty Pony. No joke.
Parasio was nice and we had another wind "event". West wind started blowing about 25 knots or so and the anchorage turned rocky and rolly. Lasted about 3 hours and then we had to sleep in the left over slop and the normal swell that runs through here. Luckily we played so hard during the day that sleep was easy.
Wednesday we travelled south to Barre Navidad which was about 30 miles. Got to sail about the last third of it.
In the marina now and loving the pool.
Went to town this morning and checked in with the port captain. Painless and fast.
Some town shots
Trying to plan out the next part of our trip south. We might just bomb down the coast and hit Zihuatanejo right away or bounce down the coast. Trying to make Sailfest down there and we need to make sure that we have room in the anchorage for us. Sailfest is a 4 day event that supports the idengious Indians down here that don't speak Spanish and yet want to go to school. This festival raises money for it. Very worthwhile we are told.
More later....
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