The Story of guy and gal!

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This is our first time here  by sea and we are extremely taken again!  Our travel time from El Salvador was short with lots of days filled with sail able wind.  Such a treat.  We found numerous bays to tuck into as our pictures tell.  The few ports we reported to were all very friendly and made our entries very easy to do.   Though our Spanish is still minimal we communicated and built relationship with those in charge.   Folks are usually keen to befriend and we love it.  We took our time exploring the Northern part of Costa Rica and slowly made out way up the Nicoya Peninsula were again we found many welcoming little bays.   The water is so clean and such a pretty green color,  the birds busy each morning and evening its kinda neat to be sung to..   Lots of fishing jumping and Pelican patrolling them as they wait and watch to get their fill.  We were escorted by the dolphins a few tim...

For those who dont know........... the Blog has gadgets........little things set up in the  back ground to make viewing  the blog fun and exciting.  Well as mentioned the other day the Photo gadget broke and is not getting fixed by the makers of the Blog software so I have created another page.............titled  OUR STORY IN FOCUS...PHOTO ALBUMS ...open it and you will be linked to our Google Albums.............all the pictures we upload are there for you.  Enjoy and know that as we have access to the Internet we can and will  continue to offer you pictures.  Tonight we are tied to a mooring ball in the estuary at the Costa Rica Yacht Club in Puntaranas Costa Rica.............we will be here for a month.....celebrating Christmas with Gerald and his familia.......then Daniels wedding in January the 12th actually then we will depart for Panama..........talk to you soon. Tomorrow we visit the Port Captain and check out downtown Puntaranas........

Seem to be having trouble with our photo link on the blog......... please be patient as the maintenance crew is up late tonight to rectify the situation.    Certainly am contemplating changing our Blog Server.......anyone have any suggestions?   Many of you use Word Press...........is it user friendly for one such as me?  Thanks   The First Mate aboard the White Shell   up way past my bedtime tonight LOL

Arrived later this afternoon after a very warm crossing of Cape Santa Elena.   Will travel over to the next Bay at Coco and do our entry into the Country.  Then relax, provision and carry on towards Punteranas......where we will spend  time over Christmas.  Will write some more tomorrow when I have internet again. 

December 4th, 2012 6:00 am we enter a natural bay which opens to the southwest.  This is our second stop in Nicaragua having entered at Port Corinto on Sunday morning. We sailed right past Golfo De Fonseca, the wind was fine and the weather window that was predicted continued to remain open so we just carried on to  Port Corinto which we found to be very friendly and accommodating with their  official formalities.  With Zarpie (the document that is required to enter and leave each country) in hand the Port Authority rep escorted us around the small town to acquire photo copies and access to the internet.    Checking  our weather was foremost in our minds as we want to leave the following morning, Monday.  Being Sunday most places were closed.........so off we went with William.  Jumped on a Bicicletta Taxi to the bookstore for the copies and a personal friends for the internet!  We offered him lunch and he took us to an Orient...

We are checked in and have confirmed that the weather is good right through the weenend.  Will spend the day making water, polishing the "diesel",  hopefully re provision with fresh things in the little town here.  Might even talk my self into doing some laundry..........I do have a good book that is calling me...............begining to  relax as you can see.  Still some chores that have to get done first though.   We run a clean Ship...........LOL  Had a great supper last night of filet minion and are reenerized after a few days of passage.  We were  out  of shape and needed to reconnect with our boat and all that goes with sailing.  Starting to feel good again.  LOL  Just like riding a bike LOL The sun is shining and we are getting accustomed to the breezed that kickup during the day here in this part of the Pacific....not too intense but does twirl us around our anchor.   It calms down in the after...