The fun was not over! Once we reached El Salvador, we had to get into the Barillas Marina. It is in a mangrove swamp. To get inside, one has to motor along this breaking reef and try to remain calm.
Once again, the photos don’t do it justice. There is something pretty creepy about motoring along a reef when you’ve already had a transmission that won’t go into forward or reverse gear!!
A panga lead us in and we had to keep our noses and asses in line…and very close together!!
A little more rock’n and roll’n!!
Once inside, it was very calm…we may never leave.
We headed up the mangrove and it was obvious, from the get-go, that it was a different country. Brightly coloured pangas and poorer looking people.
This area looked much like Indonesia to us.
A fishermen’s meeting.
Oxcart on the beach…don’t see so much of that in Mexico any more.
Nakia being tied to her mooring.
And Fortuitous on hers…a big sigh of relief from her crew!!
This shot is looking out towards our mooring in the channel. Notice the smoke pots to keep away mosquitoes and no-see-ums.
Looking the other direction, you can see all the huge shrimpers. They have to come in along the same reef, but take another route up to this spot. I’m sure they hardly notice all that rocking and rolling outside.
Barillas is a lovely marina. These palapas all have plug-ins and Wifi. The pool is in behind them.
Another beautiful sunset shot.
Within a couple of days of arrival, so arrived the bees!! We’d had them in PV and we think that maybe the remnants of the hive attracted them again.
He spent 4 hours shaking halyards and swatting…this is his catch. We were supposed to be having our “thank you dinner” for our buddy boats…for standing by when the tranny broke. Needless to say, that didn’t happen.
At 6 the next morning (and 90 degrees) Ralph donned his Taiga, long pants (velcroed at the bottom), running shoes, rubber gloves, and a bee-keeper hat fashioned from his tilly with netting I sewed on the brim.
Up he went and plugged all the holes with netting and bits and pieces for a pool noodle. Of course, he also took one of our steak knives…rather than any other old crappy knife…guess where the steak knife is now??!! !!@@$%&***!! He came down, showered and rested for about 5 minutes…then had to go up the mizzen for the same thing as they looked to be moving in there!! At least he maintained his sense of humor!
We finally had our appie thank you night! These are, left to right, Ralph, Linda & John (Nakia), Dan & Lorraine (Zephyrus), and me (Cheryl).
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