The literal meaning of La Cruz is "The Cross of the Huanacaxtle Tree". La Cruz is a small older fishing village. It has long been a popular place for cruisers to hang out. There are very few tourists in this village so one gets some of the true flavor of Mexico. From the marina we walk into town about a 1/2 mile. We have found many wonderful restaurants to eat in. Many of the restaurants are in front of the locals home or in the street. There are also many small little tiendas where one can find groceries and produce. One finds small little stores just for meats, one for bakery goods another for tortillas. While I do cook (some) it has been enjoyable to try the local restaurants.
We are meeting new friends in La Cruz as well as catching up with old friends from the Baja Ha Ha and Mazatlan. Talk about a small world. We have 3 boats on our dock who are from Ventura and who we did not previously know.
The beaches go for miles. Some rocky and some sandy. Angel and I can spend hours walking the beaches. She runs and play in the water while I collect sea shells. The temperature here has been between 80-90 degrees with the water temperature around 74 degrees. The wind comes up every afternoon-about 15 knots.
We continue to work on boat maintenance. We have replaced the wind vane, repaired the wind machine, repaired the anchor light, and repaired the lazy jacks. The windless is still being repaired. The result was we broke the shaft in the motor. David suggested that we send him 2 airline tickets to La Cruz instead of repairing the windless and he would pull up the anchor at the various anchorages.......maybe.
We have found another usage for limes. In Mexico many products are made with limes. There is lime in the mayonaise, lime in nuts, lime in chips, etc., etc. So when we had the worker up on the mast he asked for a lime. Fortunately I had some. (In San Blas with the no-see-ums they were used for our bites.) The worker used the lime on the mast as an anti-corrosive. He said it works better than any commercial product. Guess we will continue to keep limes on board.
We attended our first and last Bull Fight in Puerto Vallarta. While we were looking forward to seeing the local tradition we found it difficult to watch the bulls be killed.
Puerto Vallarta is about 10 miles from La Cruz. We have taken the bus into town a couple of times. It is populated with tourists. We walked the Old Town and The Romantic Zone which was quaint.
Transportation continues to be easy to access. While we do have to walk about a mile to get the local bus, once getting the bus we can get anywhere. It costs about 15 pesos one way. We have learned that you allow at least an hour leeway time to get anywhere.
This week we will begin planning for our next leg of the trip to Barra de Navidad.
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