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| Cala San Francisqito |
It was 78 miles from Santa Rosalia to Bahia Santa Teresa. We spent an uncomfortable night here when a westerly wind blew strongly kicking up wind waves. The next day we motored round the corner to quiet and calm Cala San Francisquito. There were no other boats.
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| Yurts at Ensenada el Alacran |
On Sunday 18th March, we weighed anchor at 0645, expecting to motor 39 miles in calm conditions to Ensenada el Alacran (Scorpion). This was the case for most of the journey. Our updated weather forecast warned us of strong, northerly winds and they came to make us tack in bouncy, breaking waves for the last two hours. We met Charlie in his 25 foot yacht and he told us we were the first cruiser he'd seen since leaving San Carlos on the mainland side of the Sea of Cortez. We waited for two nights for the wind to abate.
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| Jeremy standing on the "Window" |
We had a pleasant sail to the hurricane hole of Puerto Don Juan only 7 miles further north.
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| Puerto Don Juan |
Here we had the company of a motor boat for one night.
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| Isla Ventana |
We had an overnight stop at Bahia de Los Angeles for food supplies. Lunch ashore at Guiillermo's was lovely looking out over the beach to Sal Darago waiting quietly at anchor. We left for nearby Isla Ventana, where we snorkelled and walked up one of the hills to a bay on the other side. We saw several ospreys flying above us.
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| Islas Pata and Bota |
The next day, we motored one mile to Islas Pata and Bota. We anchored between the two islands. Once again, we snorkelled and I wore my wetsuit and a bathing hat as the water was so cold. We had a walk on both islands. One walk took us past an osprey's nest, which had 3 eggs in it. We left it undisturbed and passed by as quickly as we could.
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| Kathy having a rest |
I suppose it was inevitable that the weather would change. We had no mobile phone signal and no internet access, so our only source of weather information was from the three SSB Nets, Amigo, Sonrisa and Trebasco. None of them forecast the night time westerly that hit us that night. At 0200, Jeremy decided to let out more anchor chain as we were pitching up to 3 feet. He took the skin off several fingers and had cuts down the sides of his finger nails from the pressure of the chain.
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| Wicked looking cloud in Bahia de Los Angeles |
A break in the wind in the morning gave us the chance to weigh anchor and motor back to Bahia de Los Angeles. An enormous cloud called an elephantine dominated the sky. More wind was to come and it did as we were ashore. We watched SD heel and swing violently on her anchor, but amazingly, it did not pull out and drag.
3 comments:
Hello Jeremy and Kathy !! Wonderful to read about all your travels. I was on that motor boat anchored in Puerto Don Juan you mentioned in your blog : ) I have a few photos of you both on Sal Darago when you were coming in. Kathy waving at us and Jeremy at the helm. Love to send these shots to you. Happy travels, -Amy
Dear Amy,
Lovely to hear from you and yes it would be good to have some photos of us coming in to Puerto Don Juan. The difficulty is that we do not want our email address to published as unfriendly people can use it against us. In order to prevent that please could you text me on (Mexico) 646 287 8098. If you tell me the place where you live in the USA or the name of your boat, I'll know it is you and send you my email address. When you receive it, we would be very grateful for the photos.
I am sorry it is such a roundabout way, but we have to be careful.
Best wishes, Jeremy.
Amy, I have tried to reply to your text many times without success. Please text your email address and I should be able to get back to you straight away. So sorry for the delay. Jeremy.
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