bahia santa maria

Bahia Santa Maria

12/12

Ron was here! We met him in Abreojos and hung out in San Juanico. He’s solo sailing ‘Mar de Luz’ his beautiful 42ft. boat from Half Moon Bay and surfing along the way. Once we got the anchor down we ate some food and crashed. Night sails are no doubt what create the true sailor. We heard there was a babbling brooke with freshwater on shore! So like a pack of seamen we quickly rowed to shore. Not to forget a backpack of important laundry items, soap, razors, and claire even put on a clay mask. We were expecting something luxurious... After weaving the dinghy through rocks and reef we get up there and find a dismal pool of yellowish water... It even had a few flies buzzing around it... Go figure. It didn’t look to inviting but it looked promising and I thought maybe it was just the bottom run off of the dried arroyo that weaved and flowed down the mountain side. So I took a decent hike inland following the dried riverbed. Snaking through the mountain climbing up forgotten waterfalls thinking I heard water and frogs around every bend. No water. Must only flow at a certain time of year...what a bust. Well at least when we got back to the boat I traded 3 AA batteries and 3 AAA batteries for 4 lobsters. Another score. So we had Ron over for dinner and I made pasta with BUTTER that he was so generous to spare, sirracha, parsley, lobster, and shrimp. It was out of control good to have butter after over a month. We cleaned all our gas cans and strained all our gas through our Baja Fuel filter (that we use on every fill up, thank you Mike and Trish!!!). Just because we’ve gone so far and filled up at so many different places gas can be dirty or watery out here in the middle of no where. Claire made a perfect loaf of bread! ‘Rebecca’ a new boat to us, showed up and anchored right ontop of us. One boat length away. No anchor light on either. Retarded seamanship, especially since maria is a huge bay. 12/13 Ron told us of a SSW blow coming our way. A cold pressure and a pineapple express from Hawaii mixing. Well Maria is a NW anchorage as are most along our route. So the night was kind of rough facing the wrong direction with some swell rolling in on us. It even rained on and off with 25+kt. gusts between each spurt of rain. Pretty nasty night. We woke up on and off all night checking the anchor and our positioning to the other boats. Great job ‘Rebecca’ (no lights on) Well we made it through another sleepless night and got the anchor up at 11:00 headed for Punta Belcher inside Magdelena Bay. 20 something mile sail. Sloshy swell and fluttering wind. Not good conditions, tried to sail. Had wing and wing for a while but kept losing it. Got frustrated and took all sails down and motored full speed ahead. 14:00 three and a half miles from Entrada. Another blow coming Sunday so we need to consider when we’re leaving for our 175 mile trek to Cabo San Lucas. We decided to pass by Punta Belcher and head the extra 6 miles into Man of War cove. It was calmer with 5 other boats. Ron stayed back on Punta Belcher because he wanted to leave early and continue on.

'mar de luz'

yay! they need batteries and we need food

mini mahi

sunrise coming into maria

the lighthouse

waves breaking into the estuary. (surfable)

oh man

waterfall at some point

another waterfall at some point

sugar!!