Greetings from Rich, the 'yang-side' of this cruising adventure. In true male fashion, some technical advice on how to follow our passage.
We are currently anchored in the lagoon behind Barra de Navidad. Our latitude and longitude coordinates (to obscene detail) are:
19.190433N, 104.673367W
If you (1) copy those coordinates, (2) go to maps.google.com, (3) click on the 'satellite' tab, (4) paste the coordinates into to address box, (5) click 'go' or 'locate' or whatever, and then (6) move the zoom slider bar back up a bit (because no one has high-resolution photos of the places we plan to go and so google displays an error message initially on the screen I just sent you to), you will then see a pin stuck in the spot where we are anchored. You can then fool with the zoom bar more to get a little bit closer in or a lot farther out.
Using this tool, Hope can include the name and coordinates of where her messages are originating from and you can get a feel for where we are geographically. As well as how it feels from her commentary.
I hope the pin is always in water, because right now according to the official government charts, our GPS position puts us on land. You see, the official government charts for most of Mexico were made by a US warship back in the 1870's and their clock was off so all their measurements of latitude and longitude were off as well. GPS gives you an exact and correct location, but the charts are wrong. Makes for fun passage planning.
Enjoy! yang-side signing off for now
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