Today is Russell Day

We took a vote on what to title today's blog. Today is Russell Day in honor of our crew member Russell. Russell is suffering the effects of a cold, rough on a person when you are doing night shifts and all you want to do is curl up and sleep. So we are cheering him up. Dawn came a little bit later this morning as we are entering/entered a new time zone. We are on B.C. time now. The total time change is 2.5 hrs less than Alberta time when we reach the Marquises. We have traveled a grand total of 550 miles, ave speed 6.93 knots ( a knot is 1.15 miles) our position is 14.09.545 N and 112.54.143 W , the water is blue, blue, blue and is a little choppy today on top of a medium swell, 12.7 knots of wind and 25.9 degrees. Our resident bird nested on the front deck again last night and so far, he hasn't departed to do his bird thing of catching fish. I think he is getting lazy. Everything is working well on our boat and on Oso Blanco, which is a very good thing.

Continuation of the historical Mexican journey. We left Barra de Navidad and travelled north a short distance to a bay called Tenacatita. This is a very popular anchorage, many boats stop over here. One of the boats that we met in Barra had pulled in here for a few days too. Cedar Spirit, Glen and Mimi from Vancouver. Glen and I did a dive on the boat in the morning to check how the bottom cleanliness was doing and spent our dive time cleaning barnicles off of it. The water was too cloudy to see much because of the surge and swell, so no use to try an exploratory dive. In the afternoon, we just kicked back on the deck and enjoyed the sun. Our next day at Bay Ten. was a jungle river tour on our own dingy, we stopped at Cedar Spirit and pick up Glen and Mimi. the jungle river is an estuary off of the main bay, it is all grown over with mangroves and you can see crocodiles (we didn't) and iguanas and many types of birds. It is a nice little trip of 1 hour in at which point you leave your dingy at the end point, pay 20 pesos to the guys to look after it then walk a short distance over to the small village on the beach. We had a long walk on the beautiful beach then had a cool drink at one cantina and a nice local lunch at a cute little restaurant on the beach. Then our little jungle tour back to our boat. We had Glen and Mimi over to our boat for dinner. Good company and a fun experience. The next day, we headed out for an overnight trip up to La Cruz Marina in the Banderas Bay, where Puerto Vallarta is. Our exploration time is now done, the balance of our time in Mexico will be spent getting the boat and ourselves ready for our crossing.

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