Caletta San Juanico – Thursday February 24, 2011
Another San Juanico! This is a pretty little bay littered with rocky islets that erupt out of the water like sentinels. The formations remind me of rounding the point at Cabo San Lucas only much smaller.
We hiked and beachcombed today. The weather is cool and the water is green and murky with weeds. Most of the beach is cordoned off with potential building lots and no trespassing signs. We looked for obsidian, but found none.
Jay and Anita Biglands are here in Karina C. We knew them from BCA. They came aboard and visited yesterday, and today they organized a little get together on the beach with the other cruising boats in the bay. The Canadian boats definitely outnumber everyone else, but we met an interesting group of people today. Jay and Anita are musicians and they played and sang cute cruising songs on the beach for us. We shared some food and chatted with the groups of people.
AKA from Hawaii has been all over the world, New Zealand, Australia, Central America, the Caribbean and French Polynesia. A group of women aboard a sailboat from Nova Scotia, Quoddy’s Run have been a lot of places too, including Central America and in the Panama. They plan to have their boat shipped by dockwise to Nanaimo at the end of the season. We took their names. Then the last boat with a latin sounding name, Cantem Para Mi was a couple from Calgary who purchased their boat in Mexico and just return annually to the Sea of Cortez to cruise the quiet waters here, although they have travelled extensively abroad too.
The next morning another alpine start and we were ahead of the pack, out of the anchorage by 3:40 a.m. and headed towards Bahia Concepcion. We had a good mixture of motor and sail, and were at anchor at Playa Santispec on Saturday. There are a few sheltered bays inside Bahia Concepcion, and this is where Gary broadcasts his daily weather, in El Burro Cove. There are lovely homes on the beaches and hills surrounding us, and we can see Mexico highway 1 running behind us. This is the closest we have been to land based travel.
We checked out Annas restaurant for cocktails and the owner Russ, agreed to drive us into Mulege on Monday. There is an active RV community on the beach, with rigs from all over America and western Canada, that provide endless clientele for the little bar and restaurant.
Another San Juanico! This is a pretty little bay littered with rocky islets that erupt out of the water like sentinels. The formations remind me of rounding the point at Cabo San Lucas only much smaller.
We hiked and beachcombed today. The weather is cool and the water is green and murky with weeds. Most of the beach is cordoned off with potential building lots and no trespassing signs. We looked for obsidian, but found none.
Jay and Anita Biglands are here in Karina C. We knew them from BCA. They came aboard and visited yesterday, and today they organized a little get together on the beach with the other cruising boats in the bay. The Canadian boats definitely outnumber everyone else, but we met an interesting group of people today. Jay and Anita are musicians and they played and sang cute cruising songs on the beach for us. We shared some food and chatted with the groups of people.
AKA from Hawaii has been all over the world, New Zealand, Australia, Central America, the Caribbean and French Polynesia. A group of women aboard a sailboat from Nova Scotia, Quoddy’s Run have been a lot of places too, including Central America and in the Panama. They plan to have their boat shipped by dockwise to Nanaimo at the end of the season. We took their names. Then the last boat with a latin sounding name, Cantem Para Mi was a couple from Calgary who purchased their boat in Mexico and just return annually to the Sea of Cortez to cruise the quiet waters here, although they have travelled extensively abroad too.
The next morning another alpine start and we were ahead of the pack, out of the anchorage by 3:40 a.m. and headed towards Bahia Concepcion. We had a good mixture of motor and sail, and were at anchor at Playa Santispec on Saturday. There are a few sheltered bays inside Bahia Concepcion, and this is where Gary broadcasts his daily weather, in El Burro Cove. There are lovely homes on the beaches and hills surrounding us, and we can see Mexico highway 1 running behind us. This is the closest we have been to land based travel.
We checked out Annas restaurant for cocktails and the owner Russ, agreed to drive us into Mulege on Monday. There is an active RV community on the beach, with rigs from all over America and western Canada, that provide endless clientele for the little bar and restaurant.