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Published On: Jul 24, 2005 12:06 PM
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Published On: Jul 24, 2005 12:06 PM
Back South
This morning Gage and I went to two of the shores
at Bahia Santa Elena to explore. There were lots of hermit crabs, some of them
very large.
The southern shore had a road on it. We walked through a huge water puddle and down a road towards what we were told was a river, but we didn't make it because there were too many mosquitoes.
After almost an hour, we returned to Trinity and got ready to leave. We sailed off the anchor and putted through the bay as gusts came by every once and awhile. We finally got to the throat of the harbor and the wind was blowing hard: about 20 - 22 knots. Since it was upwind, our apparent was a little more. Luckily, we only had to clear the harbor and we turned onto a beam reach, then a broad reach. It was a great sail.
Sula, Wayfinder, and Trinity made almost the same time as we headed to Islas Murcielagos. When we got into the bay, the wind was just tolerable. It came up a bit and was choppy for the rest of the day.
Our freezer stopped working again and I spent an hour with my head in the box heating up everything with a butane heat gun and getting more frustrated by the minute. Finally it started working again, and I stormed off to the beach with Roma and the kids. I was a little short dropping them off and running off to snorkel on my own.
After some snorkeling I felt better, and went back and picked up Melissa and Roma to go out around a point and do some more snorkeling. It was very choppy, and we occasionally crashed into a wave that came spouting over the bow of our dinghy.
We had a short snorkel because it was quite rough. Roma didn't even want to get in. But we saw some cool fish and a fairly large eel.
Later, when we returned to the beach, we climbed up the hill and checked out the wind. My idea was to sail for a few more hours to go to Bahia de Culebra, but Sula and Wayfinder wanted to stay put. We could have gone, but the wind died down a little and we decided to stay.
There was a new ranger here, Luis, as Diego had left a few days before. He is a nice guy too. He is a dive master, and showed us pieces he called something like "paladar oceo", which are sort of like fossilized pieces of fish backbone. He had a whole jar of them and let us take a few.
Then we went down
to the beach and he showed us that you can find them right on the beach too,
although he is a dive master and says you find many more of them when diving in
the area.
We then headed back to the boat and collected some food and goodies for Luis from all three boats. I ran the stuff back in and we prepared to leave in the morning.
The southern shore had a road on it. We walked through a huge water puddle and down a road towards what we were told was a river, but we didn't make it because there were too many mosquitoes.
After almost an hour, we returned to Trinity and got ready to leave. We sailed off the anchor and putted through the bay as gusts came by every once and awhile. We finally got to the throat of the harbor and the wind was blowing hard: about 20 - 22 knots. Since it was upwind, our apparent was a little more. Luckily, we only had to clear the harbor and we turned onto a beam reach, then a broad reach. It was a great sail.
Sula, Wayfinder, and Trinity made almost the same time as we headed to Islas Murcielagos. When we got into the bay, the wind was just tolerable. It came up a bit and was choppy for the rest of the day.
Our freezer stopped working again and I spent an hour with my head in the box heating up everything with a butane heat gun and getting more frustrated by the minute. Finally it started working again, and I stormed off to the beach with Roma and the kids. I was a little short dropping them off and running off to snorkel on my own.
After some snorkeling I felt better, and went back and picked up Melissa and Roma to go out around a point and do some more snorkeling. It was very choppy, and we occasionally crashed into a wave that came spouting over the bow of our dinghy.
We had a short snorkel because it was quite rough. Roma didn't even want to get in. But we saw some cool fish and a fairly large eel.
Later, when we returned to the beach, we climbed up the hill and checked out the wind. My idea was to sail for a few more hours to go to Bahia de Culebra, but Sula and Wayfinder wanted to stay put. We could have gone, but the wind died down a little and we decided to stay.
There was a new ranger here, Luis, as Diego had left a few days before. He is a nice guy too. He is a dive master, and showed us pieces he called something like "paladar oceo", which are sort of like fossilized pieces of fish backbone. He had a whole jar of them and let us take a few.
We then headed back to the boat and collected some food and goodies for Luis from all three boats. I ran the stuff back in and we prepared to leave in the morning.
Posted: Tue - July 5, 2005 at 12:25 PM