Rain, rain, rain and more rain!!


Here we are in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico where the temperature is between 85 and 99 with 85% humidity. Needless to say it is a little warm. We are moored at Paradise Village which is a wonderful resort with pools, ocean beach and other amenities which we use every day. We sailed down to PV from Mazatalan and stopped for a few days at Isle Isabel. We came into Puerto Vallarta a bit early because Lucy, Jim’s sister, who was with us got two ear infections and we wanted to take her to the hospital which is near the resort. She is fine but now but did have to have antibiotics and drops for her ears. She also got a jellyfish sting on her arm when we were at Isla Isabel. We now have some ointment on board for this type of injury. We will leave next week for Barra de Navidad where we will keep the boat during the hurricane season.

Last night we experienced our first tropical rain, wind, lightening storm. It rained perhaps 3 inches in about 30 minutes. We are used to rain having come from the northwest but this was something entirely different, what an experience. I thought that it was kind of exciting but Jim was concerned about our new sun cover for the boat that we had installed just a few hours before the rain came. We had to raise it higher and add poles below it to let the water drain off instead of pond up above us. When we got things under control and closed all the windows we just watched the buckets of rain come down. It seems to me that the trees, palms and flowers are a lot brighter today and very lush.

We have been doing the touristy thing at the resort and in town as this was Lucy’s first time in Puerto Vallarta. We walked the boardwalk along the waterfront in PV with all the sand sculptures and art work. Going downtown is always fun. We also got to visit with Jim’s former office manager Wendy Adams who was down here with friends for a week. It was great to see them and to have Lucy on board as we miss everyone back home. Next week Jim’s daughter and her three children will come down and spend two and a half weeks with us. Tim, her husband will come a week after she arrives and hopefully we will be able to take them out sailing around Barra de Navidad. Even though I really like the resort we are in at this time I love Barra even more as it is a quaint little Mexican town where there will likely be very few grinkos so that Robin and the family can experience some of the real Mexico that we have come to love. I do have to say though that we will have Liebling moored at the Grand Bay Marina resort which is unbelievable so we will have pools to use and all of the facilities that the resort offers their guests. I have posted pictures that we had taken at Mazatlan with Lucy. Take a look at them if you get a chance.