March 31st – April 1st: Golfo de Fonseca to Bahia Santa Elena, Costa Rica
It was almost 190 miles to our next destination in Costa Rica, so we left early in the morning. We had decided not to stop in Nicaragua. There is a very nice marina, Puesta Del Sol, in the northern part of the country. But, it is very isolated, and we knew that it was very expensive to check in to Nicaragua. Ther...
The next day we went to the beach at Ixtapa, just a five minute walk from the marina. The beach is very large, both long and wide, and it was not crowded at all. Lucky battled the waves with his boogie board, and the waves won. The surf was breaking hard and very close to the beach, resulting in numerous face plants and wipeouts. After the beach, we cleaned up and joined Cat and Tim on the bus to Zihuatanejo. Once there, Rosé and Cat did some shopping, while Lucky and Tim dra...
January 31st – February 16th: Marina Puerto de la Navidad (Barra de Navidad)
After we completed our check-in and the short tour of Barra, we explored the resort property. It’s the Grand Bay Resort Hotel
We finally departed Alameda on October 20th, a week behind schedule. We were waiting for the new canvas installation, which was finally done on October 19th at 5:00PM. We left the next morning.
October 20th, 2013
After waiting for a week to get our canvas work done, we were finally able to leave to start our journey. The weather while we were waiting was beautiful...
