But all too soon we were stunned back into stress mode when the watermaker started making a loud clunking noise on Monday. Roy said it could be one of two pumps; we have a replacement for one of them, but not the other. After pulling apart the storage area over the watermaker locker he unhooked the raw water pump, the one for which we have a replacement, and brought it up into the salon. Not able to see a source of the problem, and fearing that our season was coming to an abrupt end, he unwrapped the new one anyway and installed it. Bingo! That was the noisy pump -- yea! We're still on vacation, for a few more weeks anyway!
Last night we joined a bunch of people on the beach for happy hour at 6 p.m. When asked how long we've been cruising the Sea, we told them about being on Jellybean for a few years, then left in 2007, went to Florida to buy Damiana and finally returned to Mexico this year. Hearing that, two couples came over: the folks on Stella Blue said "we were on the '04 Ha Ha too!" They introduced themselves as Lori and Wally and said they were on "Wild Rose on the '04 HaHa." When I mentioned that Roy and our friend and crew, George, also a physician, went up to their boat at Cedros to take care of their crew that had fallen ill, it was "old home week." The other couple are Gordon and Vlasta who we met in Barra de Navidad in '06.
Today Roy repaired a zipper on our windshield; the anchorage emptied out since almost everyone is going to Loreto Fest at Puerto Escondido -- it starts tomorrow. We'll head over there either tomorrow or Friday; going to Loreto Fest will give us a chance to meet old and new friends.
