12\12\2012 Anchored in Matanchen Bay, Mexico
Yesterday we dinghy'ed in to shore then walked down a dirt road to Matanchén, the town. We are anchored in Matanchen Bay. They make good banana bread there and have a Corona distributor there. From there we went to the bus stop and waited with three locals for the bus. A cab came by and they flagged it, asked if we would join them so we jumped in. A good ride to San Blas, Nayarit it was and then we went to the plaza. It was lively and interesting. We walked around enjoying the goings on and all the locals. We decided to look for a restaurant with WiFi that is in the Pacific Mexico Guide pg 53 and 56 the Wala Wala restaurant. We eventually found it. On the way we almost went to the marina for a look see and to say hi to a couple Elizabeth and Brian on Autumn Wind that had just left Matanchen Bay to stay there a couple days. We decided it was just too hot. We made it about 80 percent of the way. Oh well...so we went to the restaurant. As it turns out the WiFi was broke so we had some food and had some good conversation with the owner.
There is a good jungle tour here at San Blas but we are not the touristy types so we skipped it, another time perhaps.
Note 2018
We did go back to San Blas and went on the jungle tour. It was fun.
San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico - The town 2018
We went back to the plaza and had some good ice cream. Sat around and enjoyed the sights. We also walked around and to the library on the Estero el Pozo (the river San Blas is on where the Fonatur Marina is located). We sat on a bench and saw two young lovers on another bench a bit away. They were making out and so we decided to show them how a couple of old pros can do it and we made out for a bit. That was nice.
Note 2018:
We did stay at the Fonatur Marina in San Blas, Nayarit.
San Blas Marina aka Fonatur Marina,San Blas
We did walk down a lot of side streets and got some good vegetables from a street vender. I also got some street tacos from a street vender but am not sure what I asked for, they could have been sausage. It was red meat of some kind and spicy. Not bad but not what I was looking for.
Today we are relaxing and getting ready for a short four hour sail to Chacala (pg 60 Pacific Mexico guide).
The water is warm, the sunsets are great and if you can get up for them the sun rises are great also. I have not seen one since this last passage though, as we are not getting up for them.
Today we tried to listen to the Baja net on the ICOM
802 SSB it is at 8 PST time so not too early. We did not get good reception. We met some new people on a new boat in the bay - the fellow is Steve traveling with his sister. He said he gets it great and so I think we should too. We will try again or may have already tried...it depends when we send this email.
A few of the boats in the bay have left and a couple new ones have arrived and one of the new ones has left. At this time there are three boats and none use or have used any generators or had dogs barking etc. What I am trying to say is so far every one has been real quiet. Of course we are anchored far apart so that helps, I guess we would not hear a generator if one was running :) You can hear the waves breaking on the beach but I think I have said that before, and here it goes again :) you can hear the waves a breaking on the beach!
We thought about breaking out our Honda EU2000i and putting on the AC but decided we should get used to the nights here. It is comfortable enough to fall asleep with a fan on. Then early morning it is cool enough to turn off the fan. We sleep with a sheet on (and of course no clothes). Besides if we used the generator I would not be able to claim that it is all so quiet and nice. Even worse some on may write about us being the loud ones at this anchorage!
PS - The last couple of days when we have used our dinghy regularly, the (fold down) stern steps have worked great for getting in and out of the dinghy. They are really handy to have. We haven't changed the set-up much (as seen previously on the blog) and we get them up, out of the water, when we are gone so they don't bang with the wave action.
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Something you might try with the drop down steps is tie off a small fender to the top rail of the steps, so when you lower the steps into the water the fender takes some of the weight of the steps. We have a line attached to the steps a little shorter than the lines that hold the steps, and that limits the the steps from hanging down to far. Between the shorter line and the fender, I think the steps work better and will last longer.
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