We left La Paz on monday a little after noon headed south, south east on course to Isla Isabella. We had beautiful seas, steady winds around 10-14 and a wonderful sail to cover the 300 miles. We stood our watches, slept, read books, watched huge pods of dolphins, and ate light meals, watching our miles to destination meter tick off. We arrived at isla isabella around 3 am early thursday morning. The moon had just came up to help light the way in, but it didn;t reveal what our spotlight did once we turned it on. A crazy maze of fishing nets everywhere! We had to weave and dodge the floating buoys, ( old milk jugs and soda bottles holing the nets) to get into the anchorage. It was a little stressful to say the least. We hooked up real nice in the rocks on our second attempt, in about 15 feet of water with the sound of waves breaking on the beach. We opened a beer to enjoy and after, satisfied that we were holding went to bed. The next day we did some snorkeling around, and then loaded up in the dingy and headed to the beach. This island is full of birds, and that understates it. There are birds everywhere, circling in the air, nesting on ground, roosting in trees, and dead. we found the education center? where they have a visitor guest book. we looked back a dozen pages and found our names from 3 years ago, pretty cool. We went for a nice walk, attempting to go around the whole island, but the trails had been overgrown, and we settled for a shorter hike. Plus we had ben invited for drinks aboard a very nice expensive looking motorsailer, and we had wings to cook up for dinner! Well our afternoon aboard our new friends boats is a story in itself, but for now lets just say we, had some drinks, ate some great food, and made new friends. We left happy and got a great nights sleep, and woke up to shakira waka waka in the morning for some sunrise dancing before we pulled up our anchor and headed the 37 miles to San Blas, and the promise of even warmer water and coconuts! Along the way we saw a bunch of wales, playing around, breaching out of the water. Whale watching never gets old. :)
We made San blas in the Afternoon, and set our hook. The water temop was now reading 72 degrees, getting nicer. We all decided to hope in and go for a paddle over to SV Lady Hawk and say hello. We knew Lady Hawk from 3 years before when we had been sailing and it was nice to see them again. With the surf not happing, we improvised and started towing us behind the dink on the longboard. It was great to stand up and get to wake surf. our motor was a little underpowered, but then Mike from Lady Hawk got in his dink with the 15 horse outboard, and with that pulling us, we could really fly around on the boards. We spent the rest of the evening towing ourselves around the bay, and then enjoyed a fabulous completion dinner of giant tacos, fresh salad and spicy chinese noodle dish. It seems that every day gets better then the next. We are eagerly looking forward to our prawn cook tonight, 2 kilos of camarones, here we come!
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