Isla Mujeras, Mexico 
March 1 - April 6
The short stop at this beautiful island on the way to Cuba turned into stay of more than a month. We are still waiting for suitable wind direction and speed to sail to Cuba on the south side. We anchored here in the beautiful open bay with the view on the town, constant local traffic of the tourist snorkel boats and loud party catamarans. The bottom holding in this area is very bad and unpredictable. On one night of the strong northern wind (up to 32 m/h), we had multiple boats drugging, some of which caused damage to our friend's boat, Calcuta. Almost all the night we were on the watch dogging from the dragging passing by boats with the sleeping crew, helping others to re-anchor after loosing an anchor, taking a crew with sudden heart attack to the shore, and all that in one short night. We met with many cruisers stationing here for indefinite time, saw our new friends sail off to south, and saw old friends from previous travels come to stay at Isla Mujeres (Wanderer and Kokopeli).
We got into mundane cruiser's life here: teaching yoga three times a week, playing Mexican train on Sundays, Tuesdays - happy hour and cheap taco diner, Friday - pizza night. We thought that Mexico will be the first country we are not going to visit doctors, but Marina got problems with the tooth crown and had to visit wonderful dentist Victoria at the Splash dental. Near her office we found a local girl teaching Spanish, with who we are taking some classes.
On April 6 (Marina's birthday) the weather finally decided to change to our benefit, and we left this beautiful island for overnight crossing of the Yucatan channel. For 24 hours we motor sailed to Cabo San Antonio, Las Moras, our first stop in Cuba.