Caleta San Juanico, Day 3

Sunrise on Friday, October 21. The crescent moon shone brightly even as the sun rose underneath it.  

This morning, one of the neighbors in the anchorage filled our scuba tanks. What a relief that we can do the bottom again!

It was wavier on Friday than it had been on Thursday, and the anchorage was a little less comfortable. In the afternoon, we went snorkeling. We decided it was too wavy to be safe to snorkel in the best spot that we’d scoped out, the north-eastern rock, as it was exposed to the open waves. We opted to go to the northwestern rock. Look at the birds hanging out on the cactus on the rock.

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Second Trip to Santa Rosalia, Days 11 – 12 

Full moon about to set behind this house on the morning of Monday, October 10

Followed by the sunrise

Monday was our usual routine: chores in the morning and a trip to downtown in the afternoon to run some errands and have a late lunch in restaurant.

Eric had equalized the batteries overnight. He started the process right before we went to bed. Then he set an alarm for the middle of the night so he could keep up the process for the recommended 8 hours. In the morning, he changed the primary fuel filter (Racor filter) on the tank that had already finished filtering and started filtering the other tank.

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Second Trip to Santa Rosalia, Days 8 – 10

Friday, October 7, continued… After the museum, we headed back to Kosmos. We noticed that most of the piles of mud were gone, and realized that we hadn’t seen the soldiers in a few days. 

In the late afternoon, it rained. There was a stunning double rainbow.

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Second Trip to Santa Rosalia, Day 8

On Friday (October 7), we had lunch at Los Compadres. Just like last time, Eric ordered their signature lamb tacos. It was tender, shredded meat cooked in spices and served in tortillas. Christi and Keith ordered carne asada tacos, which was tender, shredded steak cooked with just salt and served in tortillas. The tacos were served with platters of accoutrements. Both the tacos and platters looked much the same as we had at La Huastica.

We’d found out that the museum was in a beautiful building that looked like an old plantation, which was on the street above the street that the grocery store was on.

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