Thursday 13^th March  Hotel California (aka Puerto Aventuras)

Well things have certainly been happening since our last entry. But before I bring y’all up to date let’s catch up on the dolphins.

Both Lizzie and baby are doing fine. I have tried to get a photo, but it is so difficult. Before the baby was born Lizzie would cruise the surface and even come up and say hello. But now she has a different task. You see she has to teach her baby to survive and that means swimming non-stop, teaching him evasive manoeuvres and they swim so fast and only come up briefly, so getting a photo is very difficult as a consequence. But here’s what I did get, so please excuse the quality. You will notice his dorsal fin is standing up now. Also he is exploring more on his own.

It will be sad to say goodbye to the dolphins but I am looking forward to seeing some wild ones. I will miss when Madonna comes up to chat, with her squeaks and clicks, especially if you ignore her.

So back to the quest for the holy grail !!!!!! As I suspected Angela came through. Within 20 minutes she called back with a couple of addresses in Cancun. So Roger and Rob borrowed Paul’s car and shot up there first thing the next day. While he was in Cancun, Alberto the agent turned up and had cleared us out dated Friday, so now we were going to leave come hell or high water!!!

Well to cut a long story short, Roger found his deep cycle ( or Profundo Cyclo) batteries, but not what he wanted exactly. Instead of 2x 200amps batteries, we have 3x100amps, so it means being more conservative with our electricity. It was weird all the strange things that kept happening when he was installing them. Remember the depth gauge? Well it started working!!!!(only briefly).

So with the batteries fitted Roger fitted the new depth gauge, we went out for the evening to watch a great saxophonist, Art, performing at ‘Richard’s Quarterdeck’.

Today has been spent tidying and victualling up and we are currently sitting at Trebol having dinner with Carole & Mike (I needed the internet access) so that we can post the blog.

We are setting sail at 6am with an overnight passage straight to Belize.

Finally I have to say thanks to everyone who has been do kind and helpful, so in no specific order:

Gerrado the Marina Captain for everything he has done for us, if you are planning to cruise the Maya Riviera stop into Puerto Aventuras Marina, it is fantastic and Gerrado & Gabriela are so helpful.

Nils of Dive Aventuras for providing great diving and letting us use his address to have things shipped and also for the use of his internet. The dive outfit is very professional and all of their staff are great. Thanks also to Andreas and Froy for great dives and to Ted for his expert tution in teaching Roger for his Advanced Certification.

Juan & Angela for helping us locate the batteries.

Jimmy for the use of his fenders.

Richard for the use of his internet and also providing some great entertainment and good company.

Carole & Mike for driving us around and also for giving me the use of her new washer and drier to do the laundry.

To Nicolas and Arasu (& Nicolas and Max) for their friendship and warm hospitality.

To Ricardo for all his advice and help.

To Glen for the use of his depth Gauge, although it didn’t work out

And finally to our new crew Rob & Sheralee, thanks for just being you guys!!!!

So, we’re off tomorrow and it may be a while before we post another log, so hasta luego amigos.