Tied up safely for hurricane season
Madrone has spent the past eight months enjoying beautiful beaches, warm water, and the friendly and welcoming locals. Sailing in Mexico is so good, some would call it paradise. But now that the cruising season has given way to the hurricane season, Madrone really is in Paradise. Paradise Village Marina, that is…
Pickling the watermaker for the summer. Fortunately the water in Paradise Village Marina is potable
Located just north of Puerto Vallarta in the suburb of Nuevo Vallarta, Paradise Village is a resort complex that happens to have a marina. It’s a very popular place to store boats for folks that don’t want to sail north into the Sea of Cortez to pull their boats out of the water.
Smoked marlin and shrimp burritos
There are two primary attractions to the marina at Paradise Village. The first is the location – Puerto Vallarta is located at the head of Banderas Bay, so it’s 20 miles away from the open ocean where hurricanes are spawned. The typical track of a hurricane in this part of the world is towards the north and west, so the average hurricane moves away from Puerto Vallarta. The marina itself also enjoys a good location; it stretches up a natural estuary behind a long peninsula filled with multi-story hotels, so it has built-in protection from strong winds and storm surge.
The second attraction is the resort itself. Keeping a slip at the marina includes use of the resort facilities, and while we’re not generally resort people, we really like having access to the three swimming pools on site. The reason we like it so much is that the weather has turned, and it is HOT here. Typical daytime temperatures are only 90F (32C), but it’s so humid that it feels like well over 100F. The heat, in combination with the tropical sun, is stifling and debilitating. A mid-day dip in one of the pools is likely the only thing that is keeping us sane!
Pumping out the old oil for an oil change for the Yanmar
Madrone will likely be here at Paradise Village until the hurricanes stop spinning up, which is typically sometime around mid-October. Madrone’s crew will split time between doing projects and maintenance on the boat and enjoying the cooler temperatures of inland Mexico while traveling inland. We’ll keep you posted….
