We woke up a bit later than normal and did not get out of bed until almost 8 am. The water tank still shows us at 30%, I am not comfortable having it this low, but it is. We had plans to go into Santa Rosalia and stay a day and then head across to San Carlos. We were going to run the water maker on Friday. We would have had 60-70% in the water tank then. This is Tuesday and we won’t be running it until tomorrow. We do have a jug of water as a back up to drink if we run out of water in the tank before we start the water maker.
We don’t run the water maker in port, or near shore as there is a lot of stuff in the water closer to shore. Not just the fact that the cities discharge their sewage there, (this is true in the states as well as here, just in the states they pipe it out 3 miles) but also run off from streams and rain fall, and if it is shallow then the sand in the water is stirred up as well. All of this challenges the water making system, the filters get clogged and the Reverse Osmosis membrane gets fouled.
We had breakfast, did our devotions, and got the dinghy down and went ashore. There is a large resort here on the point that has been closed for about 10 years, and was open for 10 years before that. The owner (as told to us by a guy that was removing copper air conditioning lines) is an Italian who also owns resorts in La Paz and Cabo by the same name. There is not much of value left here, except the building (maybe?). From there we talked/chatted with Colin and Claudia on Capella III, and Jeff and Angie on The Lost Pearl and Josh and Cozette on Merry Lee. Capella III was headed in to this anchorage and we were scheduled to spend the day with them gathering shells.
Josh, Cozette, Jeff and Angie were in Puerto Escondido and are planning on going as far north as Bahia Concepcion then they will turn around and go back to San Diego. We debated on the pro’s and Con’s of sticking around and meeting up with “our boat kids” or crossing the Sea as planned to San Carlos. We decided that we will head south to Bahia Concepcion, after further deliberations, the plan is to go out for a few hours, run the generator and the water maker tomorrow, then anchor at Mulegé (about half way to Bahia Concepcion) then Thursday go and meet up with the Boat Kids for a last day together before they go back to San Diego. When they leave, we will come back here to Punta Chivato, spend the night then get a very early start for San Carlos on Saturday or Sunday, (something like this anyway).
In the meantime today we connected with Colin and Claudia and went ashore to collect some shells. There is probably 5 or more miles of beach starting at the point had going west then south that are just covered several feet deep in shells. We talked to an Ex-Pat that sort of lives here who was out walking her dogs, and she said that she had once dug a hole to see if she could find any better shells deeper down, and she said that the shells were still there 4 feet down where she dug. She also gave us pointers on where to get the best shells, so we went back out and moved down the beach with the dinghy, we saw lots of shells, and quite a few rays, some pretty small (3” in diameter) and some pretty good size (12-15” in diameter). We got lots of shells. Renee’ will have to figure out what to do with them.
After gathering shells, we went back to our respective boats, and dropped off our “loot” then we met at the Capella III for happy hour. We chatted about lots of things and nothing in particular. It is interesting to compare boats (theirs is an Island Packet 420, which is the model we had been looking at before we bought this one. Today, we were in the cockpit for a bit on their boat, and I looked at the table that hangs off the backside of the instrument/steering pedestal, and recognized it as the “fish cleaning table that had been mounted on the stern rail of our boat but was missing some hardware to make it work. We moved it next to the BBQ and configured a leg for it and made it a work table for the BBQ. But it is nice to know that it was not missing parts, just wasn’t what we thought it was.
Dinner tonight is tuna casserole, which at first doesn’t sound that great, but remember the fresh tuna that we had for dinner two nights ago in Santa Rosalia? Well, some of the fish got sent back with us that night, and we have had Tuna Salad Sandwich’s for lunch today, and we had Tuna on our salads for dinner last night. All of the Tuna we have had for three days comes from what we were given, and it is really good. Renee’ just pointed out that even after the casserole there will still be fresh BBQ’d tuna left over. This is some really good fish, but we are just about tired of fresh tuna.
After dinner and dishes, we got showers. Again that might not seem like such a big deal, but we have gone 10 days since filling the water tank. We took showers a couple of times in the marina, but other than that we have each gotten showers here on the boat probably 6 or 7 times and the indicator still shows 30 % in the tank. This tank holds 260 gallons of water. In the future, I will plan ahead to ensure we don’t go more than a week with out filling the tank.
We do have room for guests, if anyone is interested in visiting and spending a week or so with us, drop us a line and we will coordinate. What you have to do/have is you need a passport and will need to be able to get to where we are when you are going to be down. When we know what time frame you are thinking about we can let you know where we expect to be so that you can make your travel arrangements.
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