S/V Mandolin Barra de Navidad to Tenacatita: 3/8/99

Barra de Navidad to Tenacatita: 3/8/99

[Ellen writes] We finally left the anchorage in Barra and headed up to the wonderful anchorage at Tenacatita, 12 miles north. The absolute must do in Tenacatita is the Jungle Cruise. This involves getting your dinghy over a shallow river bar. Once you've made it through the tide rips without hitting you propeller on a rock and past the sand bars of the first few curves of the river, you're free to putt up the river through the mangrove trees. The jungle cruise begins at the inner anchorage and winds its way behind the headland that separates the inner anchorage from the outer anchorage. The further up the river you go, the more the mangroves grow over until you are in a green tunnel. It's too bad our outboard is so loud. It would have been nice to listen to the birds without added noise.

The head of the river is behind the beach of the outer anchorage. Palapa restaurants line the beach. Our friends, Doug and Jennifer, were already there. We headed to Fiesta Mexicana on the recommendation of Don on Windward Luv. Todd and I ordered Rollo del Mar, the house specialty. It is a fillet of fish rolled around shrimp, steamed and then covered with a white sauce. Yummy! Then it was time for snorkeling. Unfortunately, I banged some toes on a rock after snorkeling. It turned really pretty shades of black and blue in about a day, but it wasn't broken. I had jammed another toe getting into a friend's outboard about a month before and it took forever to heal. Thank goodness for my Tevas or I would be hurting more toes more often. Both times I hurt my toes; I didn't have my Tevas on.

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