Saturday, November 20, 2004

We're in Mexico (finally)!

We just spent our second night in Mexican waters. There hasn't been much wind, so rather than slopping around thru the nights, we've elected to anchor. There has been some thermally induced wind during the days, but yesterday it was right on the nose (again!). Last night we anchored in a tiny little cove on the NE side of Todos Santos. It's about 10mi W of Ensenada. Icarian was about an hour ahead of us, and had just finished all the work of getting a stern line ashore (inflate the dinghy, dig the long line out of the bottom of some locker, pile it into the dink, row to shore... find out that the line is 10ft too short (as it always is!), add some more line, row back to shore, look for something to tie it to... oh yeah, it was quite dark thru all of this). We just dropped the hook and tied off to their stern line - Lucky us! (It'll be our turn next time). So, we've each got a bow anchor out, and stern lines ashore, then we ran a line between the boats to keep us centered in the cove to make sure we keep off the rocks on either side of us... I said it was tiny! We've got a 30ft rock wall about 20ft off our stern quarter, and we've got 50ft of water under us. A panga (Mexican fishing boat - about 20ft long with ~20hp outboard) came along and sent a diver down and around near us - it was rather odd to see the light coming up. They must have been hunting lobster (La Langosta). We're off to explore this island. It's amazingly rugged. Lots of birds and seals, and some impressive caves and surge going through gaps between rocks and the island. IT doesn't look like there will be much wind this morning, but the last forcast sounded like it should be picking up this afternoon thru the next couple days.

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