A low pressure system moved though the area and I spent the night getting out of bed every hour and half to make sure that we weren't dragging the anchor. The first thing I always do it I check to make sure that the lights on shore are still in the same areas. If they are, I know we haven't moved. I got a little scared when I didn't see ANY lights of the little village that we are anchored close to. I turned on the navigation system and it showed that we hadn't moved. So WHERE is the village?!? They use a generator to power all the houses and they must turn it off at night. I left the nav system on for the rest of the night so that I could just take a quick look to make sure we weren't moving.

We've never drug our anchor before and we have all chain and plenty of scope. I guess I've just seen too many boats dragging across the harbor to think that it could never happen to us.

We hadn't been to shore for 7 days so today we inflated the dinghy and went over to the beach. We took the cats with us and they sure did appreciate poking around in the scrub and stretching their legs. After dropping the cats back on the boat, Ken and I went to the little village. I asked in Spanish if we could leave our dinghy in front of one mans house and luckily he understood me and said 'si'. We sure were a spectacle there. I don't think they get many visitors.

The barometer just dropped again and the winds are back up to 20 knots. We are protected behind a peninsula so the waters are generally flat but the wind has us rocking a bit.