LA CRUZ

well, I have been thinking of this blog for a while, what is it that I want to tell you or to say so many things come to mind, yes we have travelled from chamela to Yelapa and enjoyed the small town together with Tynammarra and Stepping Stone, and i could give you all the details of this time and how wonderful it was to share the sites that we knew from our time with Victor in these parts. and how we sailed over to La cruz and finally tied up at a marina after 3 months of salty seas and rolling anchorages and dingying Noah felt the imediate freedom of dock side, and to his glory friends were across the dock "Albatros", he says " hey they know me" and i also want to mention the hot showers, there is something about hot showers it really makes you feel clean and fluffy kind of. you sleep well when you are tied up because you don't think of the saftey aspect and not to mention the rolling around and listening to all the stuff clanging around back and forth like the balsamic viniger bottle banging into the olive oil in the pantry, back and forth till someone finally gets up to shut it up. sometimes you wake in the morning to find a fork jammed into the sliding cupboard doors. , you need to turn on the inverter before the plugs work and sometimes the desk light  needs to be turned on as well then the coffee starts dripping. that is if you have made enough fresh water in the tanks with the water  desalinator that we installed in la paz back in december. we are able to make water for ourselves when we run the generator. we run the generator sometimes 2 times a day, for a couple of hours to keep our batteries up to charge or we may not be able to start the engine (and that not good) god forbid the computer is dead we can't do homework and check emails etc. but we probably don't have internet most days anyway unless sometimes you stand on the bow and stretch and then it will only last until you see who sent nevermind the reading. so tying up has it's wonders each for his own, Harvey loves the hot showers, noah the space to run, Kiya the ability to be away from the parents in the yacht club and shopping, me the fresh water hose, (i love to just watch it run i could wash for hours the boat me everything, Nikita he rests we find him napping alot. the other thing a dock does is alow us to work on the multitude of projects that stack up, like the leak we are finding in the Head, why does the refrigeration not work efficently, we need to hang the radar reciever oh we need to clean and patch the digny and don't forget the food provisioning is easiest at dock you can trolly the goods over, you won't get wet unless it is raining,oh my god i almost forgot the laundry,you have to walk it into town.(REMEMBER WE DON'T HAVE A CAR. you have to walk everyting home all groceries must be carried aleast 2 miles before you reach the dock so we all have to go. otherwise it;s to heavy.   ......we often think of home ..... i have a washing and drying machine and a dishwasher, we have lots of space, i think when i get home i will let the taps run for a hour Because i can,the amount of water my bathtub holds would probably bath 10 cruisers, and it doesn;t even have to be warm.  i will invite everyone for a sleepover because there is room, hell we can proably fit in 30 of us or so, i will lay in the grass, and look at our sky.

we have been travelling for a while now and we have stayed a long time in the south end , we are back in PV a familair marina and we are all washed up and looking forward, Our trip is slowly closing and we are wondering now if it has done what we intended it to do. we are starting the end of our trip we hope to find a place to leave our beloved GYPSYWIND will she rest in the sea? or return to PV will we pull into a dry storage or will we keep her in the water? She will be saying here in Mexico, the Baja...is it safe from Hurricanes?should we head higher like most of our friends and leave her in San Carlos outside of hurricane zone, by the end of May she had better be secure we are hoping more to the mid may.

We are heading north tommorow morning we don't lift anchor here, we untie the dock lines, and motor out of the marina we hope to leave at 8:00 am and we would like to be in Rincon de Guayabitos., its supposed to be fun there. we probably will end up in Chacala , guayabitos is a fair weather stop only we will check it out, we have not been north of here, when we crossed the sea from La Paz we came staright to PV. we missed mazatlan and all between, i think we would like to do this part and in the mean time decide where Gypsywind will be for the summer.

In La Cruz , we say goodbye to a few good friends, "Whatcha gonna do" the mitgangs , they keep a really neat blog google them if you like they are great freinds of ours, we shared a beatiful last supper together in the anchorage here in La Cruz, Noah and Harrison have really become best friends. we also say good bye to Tynamarra ,  these folks we have shared anchorages with and have had alot of fun with the teenagers and kids have really enjoyed each others company from fireworks to guitars to movies and exploring, not to mention so have the adults , Stepping Stone as well they have been a lot of fun and are quite youthful and they often remind us to have fun, and live a little, be risky! we are leaving just us..... and we hope to see them all along the northren path up to the sea,

in  the sea we have many freinds calling asking when we will be there Qualchan, Meshach, Black Dragon, Evergreen (we missed by a day). at this time we are still unsure our time is running out and we need to find a place to leave the Boat.


well we sail off tommorow and the wind report says they will be fair and most likely to be on the nose, we look forward to peaceful anchorage in some quiet cove with not to many boats, a cool breeze and a clear sky,  and hope its not to rolly at night,


...................in this marina there is fish jumping every minute, it really quite something, and the water tonight is like glass.....

Gypsywind back to 22