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Chiapas, Mexico

14 Monday Mar 2016

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We’ve been laying low in Marina Chiapas preparing for our exit out of North America and Mexico. Since we’ve done quite a bit of inland travel in Mexico the last two years and plan to do a lot in Central America, we decided to forgo any traveling here. As luck would have it, the sailboat Yonder arrived yesterday heading north and we have been picking their brains on all things El Salvador and further south. What a wealth of information and they were very willing to give us the ins and outs.

Marina Chiapas is a bit remote requiring either an expensive taxi ride or an adventure in a collectivo, which is basically a van filled to the max with people. The collectivo’s cost about 1.50 USD, have no air conditioning, stop often and are ‘personalized’ by the drivers.

The front seat of the collectivo all decked out by the driver.  Lucky for us there was no music blasting out of the speakers.  For 20 pesos each, we got a ride to town.

The front seat of the collectivo all decked out by the driver. Lucky for us there was no music blasting out of the speakers. For 20 pesos each, we got a ride to town.

Puerto Chiapas is home to a fishing fleet with a fish processing plant as well as a coffee roasting facility that makes instant coffee. All that combines for some interesting smells and the water is actually the color of coffee. There are plans to build a hotel near the marina but I’m not sure what the draw would be for vacationers here. The restaurant on site is quite good and from what we observed locals are what is keeping that and the small convenience store open.

The marina staff here are awesome and provide a great service checking into and out of Mexico. They completed all our paperwork and drove us to four different places so we could check out of the country. It took three hours but without their help we would still be running around instead of working on this blog. Oh and they took Gary and our jerry cans to get fuel.

We are excited to be moving on to El Salvador and the rally. We have our ‘appointment’ all lined up to cross the bar. Thank you Jeff on Third Wish for the good conversation on our last evening in Mexico.

Fair winds,
Cindy

Gulf of Tehuantepec 

10 Thursday Mar 2016

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Marina Chiapas, sailing the pacific of Mexico, sailing to El Salvador, Sailing to Panama, Tehuantepec

So happy to have the Gulf of Tehuantepec behind us.  We watched it blowing gale force for weeks with hardly any break and then we got the three day window we were waiting for to cross the nearly 250 nm.   We had some wind to fill the sails our first day but on our second day the bay was as calm as a lake.  Apparently the sea turtles were tired from weeks of big seas because we saw hundreds of them on the surface sleeping that day.  Instead of going around long lines we were steering around turtles, which was a lot more fun.  We also saw for the first time shrimp swimming on the surface.  I was thinking dinner but as Gary pointed out, we don’t have a net on board to catch them.  Ugh, they would have been so tasty with a nice cold one.

The only issue we had with this crossing was we were going too fast.  Even though we slowed the boat down and Gary had to dodge shrimping boats for two hours we still reached the marina around midnight the second night.  We never enter an unknown harbor in the dark so we spent the next six hours hanging outside.We are currently in our last Mexican port in Marina Chiapas, fifteen miles from Guatamala.  It is hot and we are so happy we stayed in San Diego a little longer to install the air conditioner.

Fair winds,
Cindy

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