A three hour tour...

OK, so things have been slow. REEEEEAAAAALLLLY slow. But I'll start from the beginning...

Starting from San Blas: Remeber how I said we met the local character? Well, he was certainly a character. San Blas itself was a little, well, dead. The bay was green and unswimmable, the town was past its peak, and the "noseeums" (biting bugs) are infamous. We're going to look at the positives though... We had a blast with our friends on Double Play regardless of the limitations. We started with the famous jungle tour up the river (on a panga), and saw some awesome birds (including storks and eagles), turtles, and tons of alligators (or crocadiles... I don't know the difference). The tour included a trip to the alligator farm and immediately after a trip to the swimming hole. They had a tiny cyclone fence erected on the water line to block off the spring from the beasts. Needless to say, none of us swam. As we watched a 16 foot alligator swim just outside the shitty fence we decided we valued our lives. After the tour we headed to the "must see" coffee town of Jalcocotan, a $50 cab ride with the 5 of us crammed in a mexican cab. When we finally got there, the cab driver must have thought we were nuts. There was NOTHING there, just a place to buy coffee. As Jay said, "anyone who had two tortillas and half a chicken left over from the night before became the best restaurant in town." We spend the 10 minutes it took to walk down the main street in town, then headed back to SB. As for the rest of our time in San Blas, we did meet some cool new friends, the sweetest old man named Johnny who watched our dinghy, watched the first precession of Guadalupe from a balcony bar, and had the BEST baked muffins/bread from a roadside stand.

We headed from there to Chicala, and as soon as we arrived we wondered why the hell we had spent 2 days in San Blas. Chicala was beautiful, much like Cane Garden Bay with it's palapa restaurants, colorful houses, and perfect beach. Jay and Kat spent a day in town (a non depressing town) and we had lots of beach time, swimming, and drinking. Unfortunately, we were a little stir crazy and the tiny cove didn't allow for long runs, and the snorkeling wasn't great. We spent a couple of days there and headed to Jaltemba.

We should have skipped Jaltemba. The first night we anchored off Isla Coral, which was beautiful if nothing else, but there was NOTHING to do. And here we were, stuck on a 42 foot boat with one another. All of us were bored out of our minds (complaints of the spoiled right? I know, I know) There is only so much you can read, and only so many movies you can watch per day. We were all wondering what we were thinking to have gone on this trip, and longing for company (DP had left), activity, and to get off the stupid boat (as we considered it at that point).

We finally arrived in La Cruz, thank god. Our first night was spent in the rolly anchorage, which didn't do much for our spirits. But the next day we headed down to meet up with our long lost friends SueBee and Eager Dreamer (we missed them terribly), and also got to reunite with Di's Dream. It was so good to see everyone! And we are off the boat, have things to do, and enough room to go for a run... thing are looking up!

So that's just what we are going to do... we can't wait to get back to California for a few weeks at Christmas! Miss you all!