Zihuatenejo to Manzanilla
Lynn & Mike ..around the world
Mike Drinkrow & Lynn v/d Hoven
Wed 2 May 2012 16:03
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19:06.07N 104:20.67W
Zihuatenejo to Manzanilla
Mike and I spent my birthday in the
gorgeous town of Zihuatenejo (pronounced SEE WHAT A NAY HO). This
village has maintained much of its local flavour, while catering to
tourists too, with lots of resorts, bars & beach
restaurants. Mike says it’s the cleanest place he has seen in
Mexico. We had lunch, with some rather special mango margaritas at
one of the beach restaurants, and they even made me a small ice-cream cake with
a candle! I am enjoying many of the Mexican food specialties, but Mike has
to be careful as he can't handle the chili. Luckily we both seem to
be over the dreadful stomach problems.
 From Zihuatenejo we headed up to
Manzanilla, the biggest commercial port in Mexico. Once again we saw lots
of dolphin, turtles, birds and jumping rays along the way. Entering
the bay we passed by a number of massive ships waiting to enter the
port, and we anchored off the beautiful Santiago peninsula at the Les
Hades resort. This resort was used in the movie "10" with Bo Derek & Dudley
Moore and has kept its glamour. There are quite few more resorts here
now, with most keeping to the whitewashed look with palm trees and
bright pink bougainvilleas for colour. For $15 a day we can tie up our
dinghy at the resort and use the facilities, including the fabulous pool and
many restaurants.
The anchorage is a bit rolly, but we have
now perfected the stern anchor and it has made things a whole lot more
comfortable.
 As we are now at 104deg west - technically
we are over one third the way around the world (Cape Town being at 18 deg east)
but given how much north and south travel we have done over the last 4+ years it
seems a lot further. We have now done over 5000nm on Time2 .. which we
need to add to our Indigo miles to see exactly how far we have
travelled. (one day when we are bored!)
We are now only about 150nm from Puerto
Vallarta, where we will pick up Mike's brother John next week, who is coming to
visit us for 6 weeks.
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