Late December 2012- La Cruz marina (Marina Riviera Nayarit at La Cruz)
We have been in the La Cruz marina now a couple days and will
stay a total of three. The first day our first thought was this is Cabo all
over again. It is a city marina so you hear road traffic and the sound of the
propane truck as it winds its way through the streets with its loud speaker
playing some tune and yelling propane. It gets all the many dogs barking etc.
There are tourist boats in the marina that play loud music and on and on. It is
not as bad as Cabo San Lucas but it was our first thought about noise when we woke up.
The town is nice and it is small and yet provides a good
place to walk to for food at restaurants and bars. It looks like some gringo
bars are expensive but others are not and there are local stores and bars and restaurants
to choose from.
We will be going to the anchorage for a couple days then
taking off for rounding the point. The anchorage seems the best deal as it is
free and has access to a dingy dock the marina supplies. (We seem to work on
too many projects when at the marina so we’re going to the anchorage for some
much needed R&R!) Then it is an easy
walk to town. The town also has Wi-Fi at a few coffee shops and lots of live
music.
Also there is good
bus service to Mega the grocery store and banks etc. As usual the marinas Wi-Fi is so but works for
email etc. At Mega we think we found a dingy plug. It is a sink plug 1 3/8 inches and tapered. We are hoping we will get lucky with this stopper!
Not a place for us
to summer over as there is no real pool or other options for hanging out in the
AC. However it will be a nice place to
come for the weekend at anchor and go to town etc. in the summer. We are
told the town rolls up its sidewalks in the summer.
We drink the water in
town and at the marina and it is fine. We will be filling our tanks before
going off to the anchorage.
Debbie did a fine job of modifying our Achilles LSI-310E dingy cover using the Sailrite sewing machine. While she was doing that I was working on the Magma flopper stopper (Rock N Roll Stabilizer). I think it is now ready to go!
For the dinghy cover,
Debbie sewed the ends where the bungee is and the cut them back to where the
davits connect to the dingy. Then she sewed in some chafe and Velcro closures.
It now works great to cover the dinghy while on the davits. For instance when
we got here we dropped the dingy off the davits and rowed to the Port Captain’s
office to check in. Then Debbie rowed to the marina (up wind) office where we
took showers, then back to the boat. That was it for the dinghy. We will not
use it at anchor as we want to rest not go anywhere. So the next time it might
get used is Ipala which is a passage over night to round the point. That means
the dinghy will sit on the back of the boat on the davits for today, two more
days at anchor and then the passage and then we may or may not use it in Ipala.
May just rest and go to the next anchorage. So it could sit for four days easy
in the backing sun. No reason for that, now we can cover it. We really want
chaps but that is a bigger project.
The marina had a cruisers swap meet at the entrance under
some nice shade awnings. We picked up
some shade screen (for the dinghy chaps project), some elastic bungee-type cord
and some fuse holders. We had to hold
ourselves back from buying much more due to pricing and storage! There are lots of activities at each of these
marinas we have been at.
Out side of Philo's
This is a fairly famous cruising hangout.
Up to main street from marina.
Butcher shop on side street, Ok just apicture :).
The town square.
The short walls around the square were actually made so
people could sit on them. The benches were not and are not all carved up with Graffiti.
The benches do not have the anti-sleep things on them so you can actually sit
together. There is an ice cream stand near by and of course street tacos! The
streets do not come alive till about 4-6 pm.
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