Arrived La Cruz marina - 2012

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 marina people are nice and the view is nice and open, you can see the mountains and the sea.
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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