Thursday, September 15: Here is a sunrise photo of the island that protects this bay.

And a photo of the other boats in the anchorage as the sun was rising.

Thursday, September 15: Here is a sunrise photo of the island that protects this bay.

And a photo of the other boats in the anchorage as the sun was rising.

Sunrise with the moon on Wednesday, September 14

When we woke up, it was rolly in the anchorage. The rolling made us so lethargic, so we had a hard time getting moving in the morning. Chris let us know that he’d decided to continue north today, so we said our goodbyes… or more accurately, our “see ya laters,” since we will see him again sooner or later.
In another fortuitous coincidence, four boats that we were friendly with, including one of the families, happened to be two anchorages south of us, in a bay called Ensenada El Pescador. We headed over to join them. It was a quick half-hour ride.
Continue readingHere is a shot of the almost full moon still shining brightly well after sunrise on Tuesday, September 13.

Christi thinks that on Tuesday, our friend, Chris, had an angel watching over him and protecting him. Eric thinks that Chris got lucky with a chain of fortuitous coincidences.
Continue readingI liked La Mona the second time. We went to another party, this time on a cruiser’s beach, and did D&D with Basik and Gen M.

On Friday morning (September 9), we were surprised to wake up to no wind and no rain. The storm had cleared much earlier than expected. What a relief! It did start to drizzle not long after we woke up, but the drizzle didn’t last long.

The rivers had dried up. We couldn’t believe how clear the water in the bay was! Between all the mud that had come down and the churned up water, we’d expected the water to be too dirty to run the generator or watermaker. Another happy surprise!
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