Isla San Francisco to Puerto Escondido

If you would like to see where these places are you can click on our Sailblogs link and then on the map. This is a much better map than the yotreps map link.

On April 10 we said our goodbyes to the Anna crew and headed north to Puerto Los Gatos. Amazingly the anchorage was empty. We anchored in the south lobe and we had the whole bay to ourselves until the next afternoon when two other boats came in to anchor.

Great beachcombing, fishing, and snorkeling.

Water was clear and warm (76)

Looking north from the southernmost beach

Looking south from the southernmost beach
(Can you see me climbing around on the rocks?)

Sunrise in Puerto Los Gatos

Sunrise in Puerto Los Gatos
The colors of the cliffs and mountains are gorgeous.

Next stop Agua Verde - one of our favorite anchorages.

We stayed in the north lobe for awhile and then

moved to the south lobe when the wind was changing to a southerly.

Lots of new baby goats this time!

We were able to get eggs, tomatoes, avacados, apples, lettuce
and tortillas so we are good to go for awhile.

The first afternoon we were there the Semana Santa
(Easter Week) campers started arriving.

By the time we left all the beaches in the bay
were set up with "family camps".
It was great!

Tom and Liz on SV Feel Free taught us how to do fish prints
while we were both anchored there.

We took the Feel Free pledge to "Catch, Print, Eat"!

This is a dorado print that Tom and Liz had done earlier.

This is our finished product with a little doctoring help from Liz.

From Agua Verde we motored 18 miles up to Candeleros Bay

so we could get wifi from the hotel here in the bay.

Villa del Palmar is an all inclusive hotel out in the middle of nowhere.

Fishing around the corner from Candeleros Bay.

Our next stop will be Puerto Escondido to get fuel and do laundry.
Apparently Pedro's restaurant and store are closed so the wifi will be sketchy at best
- hence so many blog posts all at once.
From there we will go up as far as San Juanico before
heading south again to cross over to Mazatlan.
We probably won't have wifi for another month so there
will likely be another blog post marathon then:)
I will, however, make position reports and
Sailblogs posts (text only) through the SSB Radio so check the
Sailblogs link at the top right corner of this page occasionally.

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