Sunrise on Sunday, February 26

In the morning, we went to shore to enjoy dry land. The wind had shifted and the waves were coming from a different direction now. Even with the paravanes, the anchorage was rolly. Not rolly to the point of uncomfortable, but rolly enough to desire going to shore.

When we pulled our dinghy up on the beach, a local that lived in a house almost directly in front of where we landed the dinghy came out to greet us. He told us that he loved tourists and invited us to come by his house later to have a beer and use his wifi. His English was pretty good, too. It’s too bad we met him literally as we were leaving town. It would have been nice to chat with him and learn more about the town.

We had breakfast at the Moroco restaurant, the one near the shore. While we were waiting for our food, Christi and Keith walked around some of the streets that we hadn’t seen yet. The lot directly south of the church, with the buildings visible from the anchorage, was a fairly large size commercial facility. There were several buildings and commercial vehicles within the fenced property. It was a Saturday, so the facility was closed. The only sign that we saw was on one of the buildings, and it said “almacen de refacciones,” which translated to spare parts warehouse. We weren’t sure what the facility actually did, but it looked like it may be a job center.

Near the waterfront, the contrast between buildings was stark. We’re guessing that as many as 1/4 of the buildings were abandoned, and the abandoned buildings were interspersed with well-kept buildings. One of the things that we noticed was that there were many buildings with low roofs, some where Keith could probably barely stand fully upright.

After breakfast, we walked to the market we had gone to with Garth, then headed back to Kosmos. As we were putting the dinghy in the water, Jesus came out to say goodbye to us. Back at Kosmos, we stowed the dinghy and started getting ready to go to sea.