
We had a wonderful tour the other day. All of the crew of Mungo and Cat's-Paw IV plus all our visitors went on the tour so we had 9 in the van. We had a great driver who was a local who knew all the names of the people we went to visit and had grown up with them, super inside stories.
ed on a lagoon that housed a crocodile and toured around the city of Ixtapa. The coconut plantation fascinated all of us, we were shown how to split them, husk them and the old fashioned way of shredding coconut. The fellow that was demonstrating all the skills still hold the coconut splitting record. He did over 1700 in one day. you line them us and just hack away with an axe at them and they just lie there and the milk just pours out on the ground. We had a tasted of the coconut apple, which is the seed inside that grows to start a new plant if the growth is not stopped. I am not a big coconut fan but after tasting the freshly shredded stuff I was a convert!!
eople would walk on their knees for miles and arrive at the church with bloody knees to show their devotion. The priest stopped it by suggesting that God knew they were devoted and did not need to have bloody knees to prove it. Outside the church their was a line of new cars sitting their with their hoods up. People bring their new cars to the church to be blessed. I wonder if it works????? The stained glass windows were a work of art. 





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We are in La Cruz at the moment, which is just north of Puerta Vallarta, it is on the same bay as PV. but it is a quieter spot, there are no seadoos, water taxis or party boats blaring out music so we are enjoying ourselves. We will stay here 2 nights and then head further south.

We went to visit a beach that is at the entrance to the harbour yesterday. The sand was wonderful and the views were awesome. The cave was just at the edge of the rocks by the water. We are going to do some chores today and I would like to take a swim as well, then we will get ready to leave for a passage across the Sea of Cortez tonight, we are hoping it will only take us about 60 hours and we will be in Puerta Vallarta by Monday morning. 






Here we are at Bahia Santa Maria, notice the dunes and I just loved staring at these mountains when we were at anchor.








