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Information for other cruising boats. Our experiences finding places to anchor, dealing with officials, provisions, etc.

Playa Santispac, Day 4

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 Sunrise on Saturday, October 15

Unfortunately, we weren’t feeling any better. Our not feeling good may have been exacerbated by the fact that it was very pitchy and uncomfortable all morning. In good news, the wind began to die down and shift direction in the early afternoon, and by late afternoon, it was calm and pleasant in the anchorage again. Needless to say, with the rough conditions, we weren’t able to go out until the early evening. We went over to the lagoon, which was a little southeast of Armando’s. We landed on the strip of beach that separates the lagoon from the cove. Looking northwest towards the campground.

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Santa Rosalia to Playa Santispac in Bahia Concepcion

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We left for Bahia Concepcion at 0815 on Wednesday, October 12 . The trip took 8.5 hours. The seas were mostly calm and it was a smooth ride.

We are pleased to report that we rolled up 40,0000 miles on this passage! Eric has been onboard for every mile. Christi has been onboard the vast majority of the miles. There were only two major trips that Christi has missed: in 2006, when Eric took Kosmos to Ensenada while Christi drove down in the car and in 2017, when we took Kosmos up to San Francisco Bay for the second time (life was busy for us then and we didn’t have time to blog).

Bahia Concepcion was a large bay with several anchorages, and each anchorage was better in some weather conditions than others. Eric was having a hard time choosing which anchorage to go to because the weather forecast indicated that the wind direction would change often and drastically. No matter where we went, there would be periods of discomfort (unless we constantly moved, which wasn’t going to happen). In the end, he settled on Playa Santispac for a couple of reasons: 1. It offered good protection for the majority of the time and 2. There were a couple of restaurants.

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Second Trip to Santa Rosalia, Days 8 – 10

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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 7 (Continued)

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(Thursday, October 6, continued) In the evening, we decided to continue exploring the area by heading south on Highway One. We’d only been south once, and hadn’t been paying attention as we walked. 

The black sand beach was covered in debris from the storm. Here is a before and after.

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We haven’t mentioned this, but there is lots of debris floating around the harbor, too. We were pretty frustrated with ourselves when we realized that the very first building to the south of the marina had an auto parts store that sold oil (in the building pictured above).

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