We sailed to San Juanico as planned and spent a few days and nights, continuing our social life with Warren Peace and MaToWi at happy hour and dinner time. From there we had a long day of sailing up to Santa Domingo, at the mouth of Bahia Conception. Since it's currently Semana Santa in Mexico, where large groups congregate on beaches and party well into the night (with loud music), we decided to not head down into Play Santispac, a favorite cruiser anchorage. We spent one night at quiet Santa Domingo, walked the beach looking for shells -- and the next night at the anchorage at Punta Ines/Punta Conception. On Thursday, we had our last evening together on board Warren Peace. MaToWi and Warren Peace crossed the Sea of Cortez to San Carlos on Friday and we moved up to Sweet Pea Cove on Isla San Marcos, near Santa Rosalia. We plan to head over to the town of Santa Rosalia tomorrow and then back to San Marcos before heading south.
We suspect that our close proximity for two weeks expanded the reach of the vortex: our radio transmission flaked out one day (Roy has since done some cleaning of the contacts and it's better but not perfect), the carburetor on our dinghy motor has uttered its last breath, our dinghy sprung a leak that needs patching. Or, maybe it's just that all boats are sucked into (and out of) the vortex -- the usual comment when things like this happen is, "well, it IS a boat!"
~~~ Marlene and Roy ~~_/) ~~
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