On Sunday, Dan, Liz and Drake came to the marina at lunch time. The males went to the pool. Another cruising family was also at the pool, with kids who were 9 and 11. The four kids had a blast and played all afternoon and into the evening. 

One of the tricks Christi and Eric learned while circumnavigating is that cooking can be difficult at times, so we need plenty of frozen foods onboard that can be easily re-heated. We’d eaten quite a bit of our frozen food stockpile on the passage, in Bahia Falsa and in Bahia Candeleros, so Christi spent the afternoon cooking in order to re-stock the freezer supply. Liz kept her company. 

First thing Monday morning, Eric started on the battery charger project. Eric had located and read the manual, and had psyched himself up for a major repair project. He was delighted to find that it was just a breaker that needed to be re-set. Christi spent most of Monday cooking and doing chores. The boat kids came over and played in the afternoon. In the evening, we had dinner at the marina restaurant with the boating family and our neighbor on the Nordhavn 40.

On Tuesday, Eric and Keith cleaned some of the sea strainers, then spent the rest of the morning with the boating family. Christi cooked and did chores in the morning. The freezer was now full.  We again had dinner in the marina restaurant, then went for a walk in the area around the marina. Here is a shot of the channel entrance and one ov the big part of the marina, both taken from the third floor of the marina complex.

In the cruising guide, we’d read that the city of San Carlos was originally a cattle ranch. Someone had bought the property and created a master-planned community geared at ex-pats and tourists. It was a highly successful project which eventually became its own city. Many other places in Baja are currently trying to recreate San Carlos’s success. Dan had driven us through a partly developed master-planned community on the outskirts of Loreto. In Bahia Candeleros, the master plan was prominently displayed in the hotel’s lobby. 

And it is obvious that there is a master plan for Puerto Escondido, as well. There is a grid of wide concrete roads with streetlights, and the lots between the roads look ready to be built upon. This photo was also taken from the third floor of the marina complex. In the foreground, you can see the solar panels that act as shade for the marina restaurant on the second floor, some of the vacant lots in the middle of the photo, and in the background, you can see the small part of the marina and the boatyard.

It looks like they are building cays in the bay. There is one small island that looks to be completed, and it appears that each lot on that island has its own floating dock. There is another island currently under construction.

Wednesday was another mellow day. In the morning, we did chores; in the afternoon, we laid low and enjoyed the AC; in the evening, we started getting Kosmos ready for sea and went for another walk. Here is the Coast Guard Search and Rescue station, located at the entrance to the inner channel.

Walking along the sea wall of the channel, looking at the inner harbor and the marina/mooring fields.

An abandoned something… maybe it was intended to be a boat lift?