Tuesday we waited all day for Frank and Dayna from Snow Goose to show up in Loreto on their way from LA to La Paz. They finally showed up late in the afternoon having been held up by several accidents caused by others along their way. They dropped off our parts but had to unfortunately press on, since they wanted to make it to their destination the same day.
This evening we went to a new restaurant in Loreto with Milagro called "1697". What a great Bacon, pine nuts and red onion salad over a bed of lettuce! Sue has been experimenting ever since with great success. Yummy!
The following day we motored back to Punta Nopolo to have dinner in the quote on quote "Best Restaurant in the Loreto area"! What a big disappointment. A total disaster. But hey, that's how we learn and find out.While in Nopolo we got our first day of sprinkles, just enough to muddy up the dust on the boat and make a huge mess!
July 13th, we motored to Puerto Escondido to get fuel and tour the new Singlar facilities. Nice looking building and facilities but badly designed. The washrooms were great looking but smelled of mold due to lack of ventilation. The lap pool on the second floor looked neglected with greenish and brackish water in it. Add to this the exorbitant anchoring fees and you can see, why the whole anchorage is deserted. It used to be full of boats. That evening we spent some time with Connie and Elwin (Sunloverand Sea Lover) in Huncalito.
Next day we raised anchor and motored over to Bahia Marquer on Isla Carmen. A nice beautiful anchorage we shared partially with Flying Cloud, Afroessa, Que Tal, TCM and one of the big power boats. We relaxed, playing Bocci ball on the beach, fishing, snorkeling and playing with the same whale shark we saw in Ballandra about a week before. Flying Cloud had us over one day for fried Calamari and Cabrilla. Yummy, very well prepared.
July 20 we went back to Punta Nopolo for an overnight stay and some internet work off the Hotel's open wifi system. Blew Moon was also in the anchorage and we had Houston and Gail over for cocktails that evening.The next day we headed bright and early to Loreto to go to the farmers market. The beauty of this day was, that friends of Milagro from La Paz were in town visiting and drove us all over. What would have taken us a whole day we accomplished in more or less 3 hours without breaking out in a sweat. The farmers market comes once a week into town and gives us a chance to provision with fresh veggies and fruits.
After loading up with Carnitas on Sunday and since we were in no rush to head north, we went back to Ballandra for some R&R.Along came Milagro, Aurora and several powerboats in the 100 foot range. Again, we did a lot of fishing, snorkeling, Sue ventured in the water with Scuba equipment and did very well. A trip to the outside with the Milagro gang
for some rock rabbit hunting was also on the agenda. Overall, another great week in paradise!
Well, it was time to start heading north. One more trip to Loreto for farmers market veggies and fruits, supermarket, fuel and one last visit to the ice cream parlor and off we went to Isla Coronado with TCM and Milagro. It took us 3 tries to set the anchor in Coronado. The first time we logged a boulder inside the claws of our Bruce anchor, the second try it wouldn't bite and did finally so on our third try. Better safe than sorry. But this has been our philosophy! At least we sleep safe and soundduring the night and don't have to worry too much about dragging anchor.
While in Coronado, TCM invited us over for a pot luck sunset get together. Since they have this great upper deck, it gave us a fantastic view of the surrounding area. Trawlers / Powerboats do have a few good points.....Since DALI, our favorite meat supply place in Loreto was closed for no reason, we made a quick run back to Loreto to get a ample supply of Baby Back ribs. They are just some of the best we found so far and Sue has a great recipe to make them really tasty. Along for the ride came Jo from Milagro who also had forgotten to get a few items. It takes us about an hour and a half each way, so it's not too bad.
Having finished our provisioning, it was finally time to head to San Juanico. We did so on July 31st and had a first smooth ride which turned into a somewhat rolly ride towards the end of the trip. We dropped anchor behind the reef on the south side of the bay next to Milagro, Light Heart, Blew Moon and TCM. Fishing again on this trip was nada eadible, just one of those stubborn Mexican Bonitos!
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