Traveling at night is a series of feelings, you can't really see. You feel the boat go up and down and sway side to side and you can look over the side rail into the blackness of the water and marvel at the little creatures (plankton) that light up like fireworks as the boat's wake stirs the water. Looks like Vegas or the most star filled sky you can imagine. Oh and the sky out here is completely full of stars - amazing. But as daylight dawns and you begin to see the movement of the water, the feeling of the boat going up and down is accompanied by the visual of the long, gentle, high, swell that it is riding on. Our "weather router" labels the sea conditions as 9 to 12 ft. swell at 17 sec. The good thing about this is that the water is basically flat with very large hills and valleys. In the early dimness, I was seeing an object in the blackness ahead of me - nothing showed on the radar screens, so a closer inspection of the window forward showed me that we have a seagull hitching a ride on the bow rail. He's been here with me now for 1 1/2 hrs and who knows how long before in the total darkness. It is funny to see birds out here, so far from land. Things are going well, boat wise and people wise. We are currently at 16.15.537 N and 110.31.940 W, have 11.4 knots of wind and we are chugging along at 6.7 knots of speed.
Back track time. So when we reached Barra de Navidad for the second time, we had a full social calander as most of the boats/people that we had met the first time and some that we had met at other locations were all there. I didn't have to cook for three whole days. We were fortunate enough to be invited to another couple's boat to watch the Gold Medal hockey game and it was particularily sweet as we were the only Canadians with 6 Americans. So lots of lively trash talk over our margaritas and appys. Barra has a couple of unique features, the main hotel/resort/marina is on one side of the lagoon and the town is on the other side. In order to have people visit the town they have established a water taxi service that runs 24 hrs and we can call from our boat radio and have them pick us up and drop us off at the boat. Another convenient novelty is a real French baker packs his little panga boat with fresh goodies every morning and brings them right to your swimgrid (boat door step) and if you are organized, you can order what you would like for the next day's delivery. Some very tastey restaurants in Barra and the adjoining Melaque. Our favorite place of our Mexican travels would have to be Barra de Navidad and would recommend it to non boaters too.
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