Yelapa

What a great little bay anchorage on the South side of Banderas Bay. We sailed over here with Rog and Di for lunch and a swim. No dissapointments. Good food and clear, warm water. As far as we know, this village has no power or running water. That does not stop them from restaurants, good service and freindly locals.

A view behind the restaurant. See the stovepipe?

Another view. The burros job was to watch the garbage.


The kitchen.

The eaters.

Looking across the bay from our table. Nice view.

of grass roofed homes.

This has it's own charm. High bank water frontage. You would pay millions for this in California!

Heading back to Nuevo Vallarta. Wonderful end to the day.

Sayulita

Breakfast, delivered and cooked right up to our boat! The Mexicans our very creative and work very hard to support their families.

Photo below is another example. Fresh Pinnaples.

Sayulita is a very small town North East of Vallarta. Although extreamly crowded, it has a special charm to it. Very popular locally for it's surfing, the bay is beautiful. A long walk on the beach going North gets you away from the crowds and by some large oceanside estates.

Here is the Burrow carrying his wares.

The French restaurant.

The beach walk going North.

Danger

The dangers we live with here at Paradise Village Marina! This is a sign posted at our dock. We have not seen one yet. Perhaps we should put a chicken out on the dock.

December in Mexico

December in Mexico is a fun time. In this mostly Christian country which is mostly Catholic we see many Nativity scenes. What is interesting is that they do not put Baby Jesus in the manger until Christmas morning! At first we thought he was stolen, then found out the tradition here.

The following pictures represent our local activities while we stay in Nuevo Vallarta. We have fished, ate, shopped and visited many towns here. Paradise Village is not representative of what we consider "real" Mexico so we spend most of our free time in other towns. Later blogs will tell more of the local area as does this one.

Here is the fish we caught, Rog gets the glory but we all ate it!

A view of Punta Mita on the way to the fishing grounds. You can almost see the Four Seasons Resort.


The planning committee for the big fishing expedition.



Dinner with friends in La Cruz

Christmas display in downtown La Cruz

Line up, Cindy is cutting hair!! Cindy and Cory came to visit and we put her to work.

Not a good look but my hair got shortened.

Relaxing on a summer eve in La Pinita, at the B & B Casa de Los Amigos. This is

the wonderful place that Rosalie Hope owns (from the Hope Bosworth Inn in Geyserville)

Dinner with our friends at Casa de Los Amigos, John, Rosie and Rosalie

The view of our room. There is only 3 rooms here so it feels like your own home.

The beach walk from Bucerias to La Cruz

More of the beach walk

Sue and Scott getting a little rest

This is the view from our resting place

A view from our lunch table in the town of Bucerias. We have visited this town two times now. We walked this day from here to La Cruz on the beach, about 6 miles.


"There must be a place to shop here"

We received 1st place in the boat decorating contest here at Paradise Marina in Nuevo Vallarta! Thanks to our penguin putting in endless hours on the bow of our boat. Probably the most photographed penguin in the world, she brought many smiles to passer byes.