wrote:
We always hear of people going west to east on the Gulf of mexico down
west Fl and then over to teh bahamas. Why not go the other way, toward
TX and then down to Mexico. Does naybody have any experience with that
part of the Gulf Coast (northern Mexico that is)?

Several years ago I researched such a cruise and found it daunting --
nothing south of Brownsville TX until Tampico and then, much further
south, Veracruz, a manufacturing center and major oil depot, and then,
around the corner, Cancun. Between are only small fishing villages with
ragged fuel docks and empty or virtually empty (small villages), small
mouth bays for anchoring. Charted depths are unreliable, at best.
Sport fishing boats from TX carry extra fuel to make Cancun in long,
uninterrupted runs across Gulf. Mexican Customs is also uncertain --
full fees may be charged at each port -- (graft warnings from two other
cruisers.) After months of reviewing charts, communicating with Mexican
officials , a Mexican immigration law firm, and a few locals, I decided
not to do that cruise.