On Saturday (September 17), when we awoke, we were relieved to see that most of the bugs were gone. Instead of a sunrise picture, here is a video of a bird catching a fish.

The rest had vacated by the time we left for the cruiser’s breakfast, which we held onshore in the recently damaged casita.

After breakfast, we went snorkeling along the rocks on the interior side of the barrier island. The snorkeling was ok. Since there were so many fish around our boat, we were expecting to see zillions of fish, like we had in V-Cove on Isla Carmen and in San Francisquito. There were fish, but not as many or as many varieties as we’d expected.

After snorkeling, Christi decided to work on the waterline. Within minutes, she had so many jellyfish stings on her legs that she had to get out of the water. This is one section of one leg. It is the worst section, but both of her legs are covered in stings. 

In the evening, we again went to shore to hang out with the cruisers.  

Sunrise Sunday over the barrier island

On Sunday morning, the pilot house air conditioning mysteriously shut itself off. We spent Sunday morning getting Kosmos ready for sea. At around 11:00, as Keith was pulling up the anchor, he spotted a whale shark next to the boat! 

On a side note, while we were watching the whale shark, we saw tons of small jellyfish in the water. These little jellies are normally hard to see because they are clear, but they really showed up when contrasted against the dark whale fish. No wonder we’ve gotten so many stings. We also suspect that the air conditioning shut itself off because it sucked in some jellyfish. Eric took a peek at the generator sea strainer and saw it had a haze of what appeared to be jellyfish sludge in it. It was likely that every intake has jellyfish in it. Ugh.  

It was a 1.5 hour ride from Ensenada el Pescador to The Village. We dropped anchor and headed into shore pretty quickly after anchoring. We had lunch at Guillermo’s, where we found out that the internet was still down, which meant no one in town could take credit cards. 

After lunch, we back went to the market nearest to Guillermo’s to pick up a few things that we really needed. The temperatures had climbed back up to roasting, and we were exhausted and overheated after the short walk. We retreated to the boat for the rest of the day. Here is the sunsetting behind The Village.

On Monday, Eric cleaned all of the sea strainers. The jellyfish in the generator had managed to clear out. Much to his surprise, there were no jellyfish in any of the sea strainers. However, the sea strainer for the air conditioning unit downstairs had deteriorated so he replaced it.

On Monday, we ventured a little farther into town, ¼ mile north to the pizza restaurant. The pizza was surprisingly good!

Across the street was another grocery store. This one was a little bigger and better stocked than the one we’d been going to. And, much to our delight, they took credit cards, so we could get more supplies. Of course, we were still limited to what we could carry, especially in the heat. This store must have Starlink or some other sort of internet separate from the town’s main internet source. We also realized that, while this store was a bit farther in terms of distance, it was actually an easier walk because it was flat. The other store was up a hill.

In the afternoon, there was a large earthquake along the Pacific, which had triggered a tsunami warning for our area. As far as we know, no tsunami occurred. Here is a sunset shot.