Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Whales

We left Las Hadas anchorage on Friday morning, March 2.  There's limited space there plus lots of jet ski action on most weekends.  Manzanillo celebrated Carvaval over that weekend, so we thought it would be a little quieter over here in Santiago.  We enjoyed a real treat on our short motor boat ride.  There had been reports that a mother and baby whale were in our area.  Well, we saw both mother and baby frolicking in the water, the baby's tail flipping, looking like the baby was doing practice dives.  All too soon we turned the corner and they continued moving slowly southward.

On Saturday we went into town and met Linda and MJ for lunch at Juanito's, visited the Farmer's Market, purchased a cooked chicken and got home by 5 p.m. -- a very pleasant day.

Generator maintenance -- Roy's hobby -- consumed most all day Sunday and yesterday we took a very long walk along the beach, starting early in the cool of the morning.  We landed and launched the dinghy in front of the palapas (restaurants) on the beach and it was the best we've done, so far -- neither us, nor the dinghy, got soaked.

We're now in the "waiting for weather" mode.  It's getting time to head north into the Sea of Cortez, however we must first round Cabo Corientes.  High winds and seas are expected to persist throughout this week.  By week's end, we hope to be at least one anchorage north of here, if not two.

~~~ Marlene and Roy ~~_/) ~~

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