We crossed from San Carlos to Baja on Tuesday, Noviembre 15 in light, variable winds. Departed San Carlos in the dark at 0400 (Note to self: it's a bad idea to leave in the dark on your first ocean voyage of the season), motored most of the way until cape affect winds nearing Baja gave us a brisk sail as we neared the entrace to Bahia Concepcion, then died out just as we turned to enter the channel. We started seeing the coast of Baja around 9:00 and around 1:00, the mainland coast was no longer visible.
Once in the mouth of Bahia Concepcion, we found our way through the channel and anchored at Santispac Bay at dusk - just in time. It is hard to navigate this new area with unmarked shoals and reefs. But the morning light showed it to be a beautiful place and the gringos seem to agree --they have lined the beach with campers (since Hwy. 1 is within sight) and other temporary housing. We are the only cruising boat here.
We moved to the next bay over in the morning and put up the awning (it's hot), finally went for a swim (Ah!), reassembled the dinghy, and went ashore where we met Doug and Rita. They split their time between Rita's teak farm in Thailand; Fort Collins, CO; and their house on the beach here. Tonite Rita is fixing us an authentic Thai meal.
I am trying to do some fishing but with no luck so far, although Steve says I should do well with bottom feeders since I managed to catch a lawyer. ;-) Steve is convinced that he is a jinx, fishing-wise, so the fishing thing is entirely my responsibility.
Amazing! - we can access Doug's wifi from about 100 yards out in the bay. We have had some blue-screen PC problems, but Doug has managed, so far, to isolate the problem if not yet solve it. According to Google, a lot of people are having the same problem. Oh yes, fixing computers in paradise -- can't escape completely.
Got my fingers crossed that after a system restore we'll have no more blue screens.
