During the night, the wind shifted to come from west, where this anchorage had no protection. When we woke up on Monday morning (January 23), it was very uncomfortable. We got Kosmos ready to go and pulled up anchor at 0700, as the sky was starting to lighten, but before the sun came up. Moin and The Mob were right behind us, going to the same destination. 

It was a 5-hour ride to San Evaristo. When we first left, the seas were rocky and uncomfortable, but it smoothed out after an hour or so. From then on, the ride wasn’t bad. As the day progressed, the winds calmed down, which probably helped. We pulled into the anchorage at about noon.

After carefully watching the boats in the nook and int he main part of the bay, we determined that there was less motion in the main part. We chose a spot and dropped anchor. It didn’t set. When we pulled the anchor back up, there was some sea grass entwined in the chain. We tried again to anchor. It didn’t set. And there was more sea grass in the chain. We figured this spot was too grassy and moved a bit north. The anchor set on the first try.

Once Kosmos was situated, we got dinghy down and went to the restaurant for lunch. We were crushed to see that it was closed. We were all so excited about eating there again; we’d each been dreaming about our respective favorite dishes from there. We went back to boat and Christi made lunch.

In the evening, we went to shore with Moin and The Mob. We landed on the northern end of the beach, which was quite rocky, and walked around near the shore for a while.

Looking south

We also made a quick stop at the green market to see if it was better stocked this time. It wasn’t. The white market was closed. The crescent moon became visible as the sun got low in the sky and set shortly after the sun did.

While we were onshore, another kid boat, named One World, came into the anchorage.