We could have left Bahia Santa Maria, but we choose to stay and enjoy a day of swimming and snorkeling, and of course catching up on sleep. They say you can’t, but I sure felt I did. As soon as we anchored, I crawled into bed and slept solidly for three hours. Caught up!
After my three hour nap, I jumped in the water and swam over to Oatmeal Savage, a 45 foot ketch and Inscrutables, a Bedford 45 (Junk rig) our Canadian friends, to have a chat. Everyone was in the water floating around. Heather and Matt from Inscrutables invited us for happy hour that evening. The rest of the day, we just hung out, watching boats come an leave, made banana bread, roasted veggies and Amber used the rest of our Bonito (fish we caught) and made fish salad. In the evening, we packed the banana bread and headed over to visit with our Canadian friends, the Inscrutables and the Oatmeal family, Francis and Matt with their two teenage children, who are eager for other family boats to arrive, where the teenagers can hang with their peeps.
That night I slept almost 12 hours and felt like a new person waking up. I jumped in the water while coffee was brewing. These early morning dips are lovely as people are still sleeping in their boats and it’s dead calm. It’s just me and the Pelicans. I’m so happy I have a swimgrit on my boat with a ladder, as it makes for a quick in and out, and no bathingsuite is required.
BAJAHAHA drizzling in….During the day, a sail boat every half an hour floated in… BAJAHAHA left San Diego on November 4th, and they do two stops, Turtle bay for two nights and Mag Bay for two or three nights depending on fast or slow they are. There is a party in each bay! And then a final one in Cabo san Luca, where they linger for a bit before heading to La Paz. Since they stay in Cabo San Luca for a bit, we decided we were in less of a rush getting there before they do and besides, a party is brewing. The bay filled up throughout the day and lights littered the bay by the time we went to bed. No more morning skinny dipping …
The rest of the day consisted of us taking the dinghy to a nearby reef for some snorkeling. We saw Garibaldies, Angel fish, and some other fish I don’t know the name of, as I can’t find my fish identification book. I also went for a bit of a swim which may be the first bit of real exercise I’ve had since I left Nanaimo.
In the afternoon I dinghied over to the Inscrutables to borrow a crimping tool so I can start renovating my battery set up. The crimping tool I borrowed is the kind you use a solid hammer to pound the cable and connector (not sure of proper name). I had the appropriate cable cutters, a skookum hammer, and all the ‘fixings”. What I DID NOT have is confidence in what I was doing. So I asked for some help. Matt from Oatmeal Savage came over with a tool to cut and peel off the shell from the cable, a nifty tool I need to buy. We measured, twice, the cables that will connect the three batteries to make a bank, and cut. We cut two sets and crimped the cables. Matt brought back the cables to their boat to heat shrink with his heat gun as I do not have an inverter to run such amp hungry device. Remember, it fried, as salt water got in on our passage from Port Renfrew. So the first step in getting a better battery set up is complete. I will continue once in la Paz, when I don’t rely on my batteries so heavily. I’m really excited to have this completed…
Amber had baked delicious flatbread in the afternoon to go with the remainder of our Bonito salad for dinner. In the evening I made Tosca Pear dessert and tea. As we ate dessert, sipped tea and read our books, the bay filled up with BAJAHAHA boats. Goodnight!
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