As you head south down the coast you start seeing some really large homes on the beach and I mean huge estates. Then you round the corner into the bay at Careyes and the land of dream homes. I anchored off the small restuarant in 20ft sand bottom nearby to some pangas. I was the only big boat in the bay. Careyes is like the Santorini in the Greek islands with its steep cliffs and brightly colored homes.
I took the dinghy ashore to the beach next to the restaurant. No one around (as usual its like a ghost town).
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Fantastic snorkeling around the island and the small bay in the north end.
The main hotel has nice pools and bars which you can use.
20 miles of this coast was bought by an Italian businessman after the WW2 and he controls all the development in this area.
If you walk out of the main hotel and cross the main highway Mex200 there is a small artiist town with a great Italian pizza restaurant. very good pizza. There is also a Banamex ATM in an air conditioned booth that works!
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Casting off from San Francisco, this is the blog of my 2010 voyage south in a Catalina 42 MKII.
In addition to the log entries, check the tabs below for information about the boat and my plans.
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