Monday March 10^th ….yes you guessed PUERTO AVENTURAS!!!!!!!

Here we are starting our 8^th week in Paradise. That’s us in the foreground. In our last entry we were struggling to get the parts we need for the depth gauge. Since then one shipment has arrived, after having arrived in Mexico City only to be sent back to Miami!!!!!  But we are waiting for another shipment that although it is in Mexico and has been for 2 days now, will take another 4 or 5 days to get here, so we are not going to be able to set sail on Wednesday as we planned.

Which is just as well, because 2 days ago we fried 2 of our batteries!!!!!! I had gone to do some shopping and left Roger & Rob about to fit a new in-hull transducer. When I returned they were working on the batteries!!!!!  Roger doesn’t know the cause, but it is coincidental that we had just moved from our berth to another berth across the marina and the onshore power polarity was reversed, so we had to get the electrician to come and re-wire it for us, so we have our suspicions, but the jury is out on it still.

So what do the Dances do when the proverbial hits the fan??? They party!!!!!

We started out on Saturday night with an invitation to a party on Richard’s yacht. Richard is a very nice English guy (to all my single girlfriends….FYI Richard is an eligible 30 something bachelor) who lives here aboard his yacht New Avenger. Well, it was a very lively crowd (as you would expect from 20 and 30 somethings) which combined with Richard’s version of Jenga (involving large amount of Tequilla) made things even livelier. So it was that at 2am Roger and I staggered back to Beaujolais.

We finally surfaced at 11am the next day, in time to get ready for the next party, which was an afternoon/evening celebration of the 30^th wedding anniversary of our friends Rob & Sheralee.

We had a wonderful time, dancing, eating and drinking until 1am (we started at 2pm) and meeting lots of lovely people, many of whom have been so kind to us in the time since we met them.

Today Roger set out early to try and track down a supply of batteries. He started with Ricardo (a local guy who manages Tequilla Sunrise fishing boats), who called a friend and gave Roger an address in Playa where he could get them. Then Carol (our new Texan friend) stopped by the boat to see if there was anything she and Mike (the captain of Richard’s Yacht) could do.

They took us into Playa to the supplier, who it turned out didn’t have the right type of battery and

didn’t know where we could get one, so we gave up for the day and went and had lunch on the beach.  Just had to post this photo of the Playa Police!!!

Still on the quest for the holy grail Roger has contacted our new Mexican friends Juan & Angela to see if they can help us find a supplier/distributor. Now if anyone can find something it will be Angela because as a film producer that what she did for a living!!!! Fingers crossed

So the search continues and I would like to thank all the people who have been so kind and so helpful., I would also like to say thanks to Richard for the use of his internet, without which life for us would have been so much more difficult….Thanks Richard!

The downside is that we have less and less time to spend in the other places we intended to visit as we have our flights booked for the 28^th April. However, we are now firm believers or is that converts to the ‘Rigid flexibility’ concept. So we have changed plans (again) and will only visit Belize & Guatemala this trip (though as we had intended to go to Honduras we have booked our flights out from there) and we will start our next trip in Guatemala and go on to Honduras and further south (but hey we practice rigid flexibility and planned spontaneity so that may change before we get there!!!). This way we don’t miss out on Belize & Guatemala (which have so much to offer)  finally we are finding out what it is to be REAL cruisers!

Puerto Aventuras  certainly has a strange power over people who visit. Many people end up here, never leaving. I wonder if it has something to do with the Mayan Ruin that was demolished to build the place??????? Watch this space!