Category: 2021 – 2022 Season 3

Up and about. Breakfast bible reading and the net. Then a snorkel trip to the beach in the kayak. Good: we made it to the beach, Bad: Reneé’s equipment did not. We spent about a half hour looking and gave up and headed back to the boat and left after lunch at about noon.

It is only about 20 miles so we sailed most of the way. We saw whales on the way, some pretty close. Finally after the wind died down we started the engine and arrived about 4:30 pm. Reneé checked us in, and I got shore power on and then we washed the boat and had dinner. Afterwards showers and bed. A pretty peaceful day.

Up around 7 am, fresh coffee ready. Breakfast and a surprise there is a cruisers net at 8:30 on channel 17. We found out there is an informal get together in the afternoon. We are going to get the paddle boards down and head ashore for lunch then the get together. I listened in on the Panama Posse call this morning. We took the paddle boards in, Reneé stood up, I tried and felt too unsteady to stay up and sat down. Once ashore, we walked the length of the beach and back. Then had lunch at the restaurant. After lunch I took a nap on one of the boards, actually pretty comfortable. By then, lots of people were ashore and we got into a number of conversations. Finally around 5:30 we went back to the boat, put the boards away, took showers and BBQ’d dinner. This was Mahi-Mahi and veggies all in foil packs, so easy cleanup. Of course the batteries were down to 55%, so we started the generator, and cleaned up after dinner. We ran the generator for a bit more than 3 hours, charging the batteries from 55% to 91%. During that time, Reneé’s Facebook Messenger account got hacked with someone sending links via her account. She changed her password and we will see what happens.

 

Up late, breakfast and slowly underway. We planned to only go about 8 or 9 miles to the south and anchor at Punta Paraiso. But when we got there, it was pretty small and there was a big power boat in the middle of it, which about took up the whole space. So, we went with our second choice, Tenacatita. Which was about 20 miles further south. We anchored at about 5 pm, after watching a couple of whales play where we wanted to anchor. We made two failed attempts to anchor and finally moved down the beach. This is a fairly large anchorage, which is a good thing as there are at least 35 boats here now, and we saw two other boats behind us coming this way. We are planning to stay here either two nights or three. We will see what happens. It is less than 20 miles from here to Barra de Navidad, so it won’t take long to get there. On our way here today, we saw a few turtles, but no whales or dolphin until we got here.

Up late, breakfast, bible reading and .. almost nothing. We got in the water for a bit, and mostly just had a rest day. Very relaxing. Then at the end of the day with dinner and a movie then bed.

Up at 6 slowly, underway by 8 am, anchor up and so was the sun. Underway and breakfast while tossing, no wind and lots of swells, We motored all day, slowly. Finally getting to Chamela and anchoring behind an island. It was one of those sailing trips where there is either no wind, too much wind or it is coming from the wrong direction. In this case we had all three. No wind most of the day, with a north bound current and south bound swells. Then the the wind picked up and it was right on the nose so we still could not use it. Then by the time we were headed into anchor way more wind than we wanted. But we got anchored, had dinner and showers and watched a movie. Tomorrow is a rest day, we will stay here in Chamela for a day to play.