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.
Sunrise Friday morning (August 26)
When we were on Isla Coronados, we’d noticed that someone had put a bucket of water on the shore. Tons of bees swarmed the bucket, but there were no bees anywhere else. One of the things we’d liked about Isla Coronados was the lack of bees bothering us onboard.
On Friday morning, we tried an experiment. We left a couple of small containers of water onshore to see if the bees would stay onshore if they had water. We also went for a walk to check out the little cave that was visible from the shore.
Here is the sunrise on Sunday (August 21).
Sunday was oppressively hot again. Eric got a very early start on the dive compressor. He reassembled the third stage. Sadly, the compressor still didn’t work. He took off the final pressure safety valve and cleaned it. It looks like this may be the part that is broken, but he doesn’t have a spare. He gave up on the project and put the compressor back into its mount, along with all the gear stored in around it. He was frustrated that he again put so much effort into the repair for nothing. There was another boat with the same compressor that left a couple day ago, and he is hoping to perhaps find them and try swapping in the part to verify it is the problem.
We wound up spending the day holed up on the boat, enjoying the A/C. Brett came over and the boys played. Christi and Eric did a few chores. In the evening, Eric went to the pool for social hour while the kids and Christi stayed at Kosmos.
Continue readingOn Wednesday (August 17), all three of us were still feeling off-kilter from the night passage on Monday night/Tuesday morning. Brett from Avalon came over and the boys played games all day. Eric played with them some in between doing chores. Christi did some cooking and some chores.
In the evening, we all went to the pool for social hour. Christi and the boys didn’t stay long; instead, they went for a walk to get aqua frescas in town. Agua frescas are a broad category of light, refreshing drinks that include include diluted, lightly sweetened fruits juices and teas made of local flowers. We haven’t mentioned them before, but limonada (basically a light lemonade, but made with lime) jamaica (tea made from hibiscus flowers), and pina (diluted pineapple juice) have become staples for us when we go out to eat. This time Christi tried one called Fruita that was mixed fruit with a touch of cream. It was phenomenal.
Here are some photos from the walk
On Tuesday morning (August 9), we left Puerto Escondido at 0830 to go to Loreto to get our park pass and do some more grocery shopping. We went to the park office first, arriving right before it was supposed to open at 0900. It was a good thing we hadn’t started the process yesterday; what we thought would take five-minutes took 1.5 hours to complete.
As part of the process, we had to go to the bank in the historic town center to pay for the pass. As we mentioned in the last post, Loreto was the first Spaniard settlement in the Californias, and was the capital until 1777. This is the Capital building.
Here is a shot of the town center plaza
Some of the streets surrounding the plaza have tree canopies
