June 11, 1997-Moving North in The Sea of Cortez
Today we sailed out of Agua Verde anchorage where we spent about seven days peacefully soaking up sunshine, snorkeling, and being lazy. Agua Verde is a beautiful spot surrounded by high rugged hills and great snorkeling reefs. We saw a big barracuda swimming near the boat (the water here is very clear).
There are a few homes here, one store, one resturante, and lots of goats.
Mexican Fish Camp
I dove on the anchor while Judy was backing down with the engine and I saw that instead of digging in our plow anchor was simply laying on it's side sliding along. We switched to our Danforth while we figure out what is wrong with our anchoring technique.
Steve, from SPIRIT, brought over his "Snuba" outfit, an inner tube with a small gas powered compressor on it and two long hoses. We dove down and cleaned WINGS' bottom and changed the zinc. Breathing with the hoses was easy, (they have mouth pieces). The little hand held suction cup handle and Scotch Pad work really well when cleaning the bottom of your boat. Then we went over to SPIRIT and did her bottom too. With a weight belt and 9lbs I could stand on the bottom of the bay and look up at the boat and two dingys. Captain Nemo!
There is a rock here called Solitaria which stands up a couple hundred feet but it is narrow and leans over like the leaning Tower of Pizza. From our anchorage it looked like a square rigged ship sailing into the anchorage with all sails braced taut on a bowline and the ship heeled over good. For the first few days I kept seeing it out of the corner of my eye and I had to take a second look each time.
I practiced with the spear gun but I hit nothing.
We went into the village, found the resturante and made a reservation for six persons for the next day and requested goat. They will only butcher one for a large party. It was delicious. (BofA people, please tell Beverly that goats here DO NOT have big brown eyes, so it is OK to eat them.)
A group of fishermen including four with snorkels and fins were searching a cove for sardines. When the snorkelers spotted them they signaled to the waiting panga which then sped over and encircled the school with a large seine net. One half an hour later they had dragged the full net up to the beach and dumped the sardines in to the bottom of the boat for a one way trip to the large troller off shore. Interesting.
We are now headed to Puerto Escondito, carrying mail from La Paz for boats there and I am waiting for a cell phone window so I can transmit this.
Fred & Judy, SV WINGS, Sea of Cortez
There are a few homes here, one store, one resturante, and lots of goats.
Mexican Fish Camp
I dove on the anchor while Judy was backing down with the engine and I saw that instead of digging in our plow anchor was simply laying on it's side sliding along. We switched to our Danforth while we figure out what is wrong with our anchoring technique.
Steve, from SPIRIT, brought over his "Snuba" outfit, an inner tube with a small gas powered compressor on it and two long hoses. We dove down and cleaned WINGS' bottom and changed the zinc. Breathing with the hoses was easy, (they have mouth pieces). The little hand held suction cup handle and Scotch Pad work really well when cleaning the bottom of your boat. Then we went over to SPIRIT and did her bottom too. With a weight belt and 9lbs I could stand on the bottom of the bay and look up at the boat and two dingys. Captain Nemo!
There is a rock here called Solitaria which stands up a couple hundred feet but it is narrow and leans over like the leaning Tower of Pizza. From our anchorage it looked like a square rigged ship sailing into the anchorage with all sails braced taut on a bowline and the ship heeled over good. For the first few days I kept seeing it out of the corner of my eye and I had to take a second look each time.
I practiced with the spear gun but I hit nothing.
We went into the village, found the resturante and made a reservation for six persons for the next day and requested goat. They will only butcher one for a large party. It was delicious. (BofA people, please tell Beverly that goats here DO NOT have big brown eyes, so it is OK to eat them.)
A group of fishermen including four with snorkels and fins were searching a cove for sardines. When the snorkelers spotted them they signaled to the waiting panga which then sped over and encircled the school with a large seine net. One half an hour later they had dragged the full net up to the beach and dumped the sardines in to the bottom of the boat for a one way trip to the large troller off shore. Interesting.
We are now headed to Puerto Escondito, carrying mail from La Paz for boats there and I am waiting for a cell phone window so I can transmit this.
Fred & Judy, SV WINGS, Sea of Cortez
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