We woke up at about 6 am. We were surprised to find our we have “some” cell service here. It is 3G and does not seem to have internet, but I got a text message, and Renee’ got a game request on Words With Friends. We also got notifications of messages and Facebook updates. Of course we can’t do anything with those notifications. After breakfast we will get underway.
We found a place to drop anchor tonight that is about half way to Santa Rosalia one book that we got as pictures of pages from Kevin on S/V Tashee has information on this anchorage. We did not find it in any of the other books. The name of the place in the old book is Caleta Lobera, in Navionics it Bahia La Pila. There does not appear to be a name in Navionics. We have info on it based on Navionics and OpenCPN (not very much info) and this old book. If we don’t like it when we get there we will continue to Santa Rosalia and anchor at night. I really don’t like anchoring after dark, but we have been to Santa Rosalia before and have seen that it is pretty well lit at night. We will see.
So, we anchored at about 2 pm, at Caleta Lobera (Bahia La Pila) in about 15 +/- feet. There is a little protection here from the west, and it is a very small cove. There is a rock just to the south of this cove, and it is home to a colony of Sea Lions. The paragraph from this old book:
Caleta Lobera
The offlying rock that gives this small cove some of its protection is home to a small colony of sea lions. In behind the rock and another rock detached from the land you anchor in sand at about 13 feet. I thin that in any strong weather from east of south, Lobera would not five much protection. No cruising guide describes these two anchorages, and the Mexican Topo maps do not show much of an indentation, but an aerial photo in old Baja Sea Guide showed this to be a viable cove, so we decided to explore it and we spent a quiet night in relatively calm southerly weather.
(The two anchorages referred to here are Caleta Lobera and Punta Salina to the south).
We just discovered that one of the affects of having cell service (even briefly) last night was that the iPhones updated for the time change here in Mexico, we have an electric clock that does not auto advance, and it shows 2:30, our phones say it is 3:30, the computer says 2:30 etc. So, we left this morning it was probably 8 am, and we got up at 7 not 6. etc. So, we will adjust the clock and the chart plotter for the current time, and get started at 7 tomorrow (local time). The time change happened 15 days ago. We are a bit “Out Of Touch!”
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 sport 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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