December 11th San Juanico to Mangles, 8nm,

calm seas winds 8-12knots, anchored in N cove at 15 feet of water, rolly anchorage

 

 

 We fished this San Juanico morning before heading to Mangles and still caught nothing. We did have these small 12 -20inch fast sleek black fish striking and we could not catch them, but it was fun trying!! You could see them coming, they would dance across the water and strick but we couldn’t hook them,as if they were watching us as they were teasing us! We saw a sea turtle and lots of fish along the banks through the clear water, no need to snorkel it was like a clear window in areas, very cool fish, big dark blue angle type fish, small bright yellow and black striped fish, long light silver needle fish. Little marble like bright blue fish and lots of other small fish. We left San Juanico about 12noon and headed the 8nm miles to Mangles, we pull our jib out no main, we need to repair it at La Paz. We were the only boat until Seahorse arrived. It was now blowing about 15-20+knots. We are anchored in about 15 feet of water, its a rolling anchorage here not a lot of protection really. We went to shore and explored the ruins of a resort, someone started to build and never finished, its crumbling away. This is the beach we found crystal type rocks on when we were here in 2009. The rocks are amazing on this beach, agates everywhere. We went to our boat and Brian made a awesome Chicken Divan Dinner!!!  Cam and Janie came for dinner and Cam loaded a pile of great music on my computer. Sleepless night for me the boat rocked back and forth and the dink (that is hanging) outside our bedroom windows is rubbing and bumping against Rainshadow as Brian is snoring and the boat is rocking.  Yawn.........

December 10th San Juanico

Calm morning windy afternoon and calm warm beautiful evening...

Today we went fishing, didn’t catch anything, S/V Aka with Fran and Ed on it said they caught a yellow tail and showed us what they used and how they caught it. We tried no luck. We invited everyone anchored out over for drinks later, everyone came, it was a nice evening. S/V Whirlwind, Ron and Maryann, S/V Seahorse Cam and Janie, S/V Southern Cross, Jon and Vicky, S/V Aka Ed and Fran and S/V Barnicle with Bill and his uncle.  Great fun, great friends.........

December 9th, Pulpito to Caleta San Juanico, 8nm, wind 5-10knot calm seas

 

 TOP:  Punta Pulpito -------------

                                                             Caleta San Juanico

Went exploring this morning, first stop was the obsidian vain, see the black line up the hillside.  That was so cool, black glass everywhere, its beautiful.  The vain is amazing, boulder size pieces lay on the beach and various other sizes all over, the sand is magical, siver glitter type fine dust.  After collecting what we wanted we took the dink fishing had no luck, then explored a beach and found some cool shells.  We departed pulpit around noon for San Juanico.  We wouldn’t pull up our main, we noticed we had broken some of the plastic pieces that hold the main to the mast.  We arrived San Juanico and there were about 3 boats, one was S/V Baracle, with Bill aboard, the boat that was next to us on the hard and behind us on our way out of Bahia Concepcion.  We tried hailing him to let him know of the nets that were in front of us but he did not acccknowledge.  Anyway later S/V Whirlwind, with Ron and Maryann came in.  We did not visist anyone today we stayed on the boat and cleaned up and listened to our book on tape

December 8th, Play el Burro to Punta Pulpita, anchored, 45nm

Departed El Burro at 810am arrived Punta Pulpito at 3pm.

Sailed, steeps seas about 6ft 6sec. Winds from NW at 15-30knots at bit chilly

We left around 810am from Burros, not much wind, Cam and Jaine left about a 1hr before us.  We saw Bill, cant remember the name of his boat, he was next to us in the yard at Marina Seca, hes from Bellingham WA. At the mouth of Bahia Concepcion we had to dodge several fishing nets and as we rounded Punta Domingo the wind picked up.  We had a great sail most of the 46nm, it was rough though with steep seas 6ft at 6 sec.  When we got to Bahia San Nicholas near San Sabastian the winds were blowing 25-30knots we had full sails up.  I was not comfortable, I had a hard time trying to steer Rainshadow, Brian had to take the helm.  We did bring in the staysail and rolled the main jib in about ½.  We could not reef the main, because we haven’t put in the reef line yet.  The winds let up a bit as we neared the point and then we pulled in a Skip Jack Tuna!!  Our first fish this trip!!  We anchored at Punta Pulpita, its not a very pretty anchorage but a nice stop for a over night break.  Brian put the dink in and Picked up Cam and Janie and brought them over for fresh fried tuna, with Cams mac and cheese.  Good dinner.  Off to San Juanico tomorrow after we explore the obsidian vein in the rock cliff.

December 7th, , Playa el Burro @ Bahia Concepcion

Winds calm in the bay in the morning and evening, picked up a bit during the afternoon as usual

We worked on the boat only about 1 hr then took the dink for a ride and a little fishing. We didn’t catch anything. Today is my 2 month anniversary for quiting smoking!! So we went to Berthas for lunch and cervas. We met 3 different couples all from Canada, the first couple drove down with their kite boards and surf boards, nice young couple, the second couple Jack and Megan on S/v Moon Raker and Eien and Diane both couples were on sailboats. We then went to Kerrie and Eddies and played bocce ball using golf balls and clubs, it was fun. Then off to our boat for dinner with Cam and Janie, Janie and I made homemade corn tortillas, they turned out great! Tommorrow we leave for Punta Pulpita.

December 6th, , Playa el Burro @ Bahia Concepcion

Winds calm in the bay in the morning and evening, picked up a bit during the afternoon as usual

Today Brian sanded the rails on the top side, I went fishing with Cam and Janie in their dink. We used yellow marshmellows to catch some small fish to use for bait to catch bigger fish. We caught 5 small fish but never caught any big fish. Quite night tried to get my email going , the driver I downloaded worked, but I guess I didn’t download airmail for Hams only the sailmail version so I don’t have the stations or frequencies for WL2K (this is who recieves and sends my email via Single Sideband Radio). I spent the night updating this journal and Brian played solitare. Nice relaxing evening.

 

December 5th, Playa el Burro @ Bahia Concepcion

December 5th, Playa el Burro @ Bahia Concepcion


Winds about10-15 in the afternoon, calm night

Today Eddy took all of us to Mulege to get provisions. We stopped at Doneys for a taco and margarita, it was great.  I got on the internet while we were at Doneys and downloaded the driver for our modem, hope it works. I emailed family and sure do miss the kids and hope everything is fine at home! Eddy took us to a store that had mostly Costco products so we were able to get US items we don’t usually have access to. We wanted cheddar cheese but it was $20.00 usd for a 2lb block. A can of cream soup is about .90cents. When we got back we put stuff away then went back to shore and I finished sewing the curtains for Kerri and Eddy took the guys in his dune buggy to a friends place that Brian says was pretty incredible. After the curtains were done and the guys were back we went to Berthas and played volleyball on the beach, then headed back to the boat for the evening. The night was calm but a big pelican decided to campout on our swim step that’s located right outside our bedroom window. Between the bird and our dink hitting the stern I didn’t get much sleep.