Tehuantepec (Patreon)

Playa La India - Part of Huatulco National Park, on the Southern Pacific Mexican Coast. We've made a lot of progress to the South in the last couple of weeks and should be approaching the Mexico/Guatemala border in the next few days, providing we can safely cross the "Tehuantepec" - a notorious and brutal local wind that funnels across a flat and narrow part of Mexico from the Atlantic, and is compressed and accelerated by mountains on either side.

The second picture shows the weather forecast from a couple of days ago, and illustrates the force of this regional wind. As you can see from our position, there's no way to continue the journey safely until the Tehuantepec stops blowing for a moment!

ps. The photo of our anchorage is high-resolution - feel free to download and use as a desktop background if you like!