Sunday at Chacala
Sowell Family's Travels on Gijima
Skipper: Tim Sowell Admiral Tracy Crew Sean & Alex
Mon 1 Mar 2010 02:56
neighbor lift their stern anchor this gave me my upper body exercise as it
was well set, but after this I felt I had earned a good early morning swim,
something I cherish being able to get up on a clear day and dive off the aft
swim step into clear blue water. The family had decided the beach was too
tempting so we went ashore early, and that started a full day a Chacala on a
Sunday. The beach is basically down town, with a few stores on the street
behind with tourist goods, and cheap tacos, with 6 to 8 beach restaurants.
The boys immediately linked up with a Mexican family of kids same age
started build sand castles, I went off in search of coffee, and came back
with coffee and fresh fruit. This is something I loved in Belize and found
it here (meaning we are far enough south for tropical fruit) I visit a beach
lady who cut up a pineapple and papaya and the boys ate it all so I went
back for more, but so fresh, and it was not even 9 am. The stores and
Restaurants were waking up, and Mexican families were dribbling onto the
beach, by lunch the beach was busy, we had moved to a beach restaurant, and
a number of Canadians came to the beach (there are many here) but today they
were ready for the final of ICE Hockey. The boys played all day, we got Sean
surfing in a nice break on the boogey board, and I completed my book (number
12 since setting out)about Robin Know Johnson's epic sail around the world.
At the end I was sitting back in ore of what he did and having just
completed Captain Cooks accounts, I feel what we are doing is so simple,
these people had nothing like the information I have. It is a true
inspiration to courage, willingness to succeed and working around issues, I
have a lot I can learn!!
The wind had come up by now and coming directly into the beach creating a
lot of chop, looking at the boat 400 feet off the beach it was starting to
roll and pitch, Tracy and I decided we would stay on shore for the afternoon
naps, and have dinner wait for the wind to drop, and any way the boys were
having a lovely time on the beach with the locals, and I was relaxed with my
book and Tracy was unwinding, so why rush when we would probably have to
come back to beach after naps. We made it out to boat just as night
descended, after a spectacular sunset over the ocean, and things have calmed
down, still a bit bumpy but it looked worst from the beach.
Chacala has been everything people had told us, a great beach village in the
forest white/ yellow sand and off to the south the bay runs around with
volcanic rock and descends tropical vegetation (green, so green) down to the
cliff edges. I suspect we caught family day as there were a lot of families
and music on beach, and as the boys found Ice cream men going up and down,
(Alex as soon as discovered what they sell, he followed them with their
bells). If you coming down this coast either by Car or boat do make this a
stop, but use an aft anchor. So ended a lazy Sunday in Chacala as Sunday's
should be.