Candeleros with Julie and Bill
27 April 2013 | Candeleros Anchorage
Sue
We left beautiful but windy San Juanico and headed straight for Candeleros Anchorage since our friends Julie and Bill were there. This anchorage is named for a series of three rocks near the peninsula that look like a candelabra. Mostly the three rocks are a danger to navigation, but fortunately we had good weather while passing by them.
We rode into the beach with Julie and Bill and enjoyed a drink and a swim at the beautiful resort that was mostly empty, but welcomed Yatistas.
We then headed for another boat from our Baja Ha Ha 2010 class, Double Dharma and enjoyed more drinks and snacks. Back on our on boat for dinner, we noticed the wind was picking up and the anchorage being quite small, we were all very close together, at risk for hitting one another as the wind went one way, and the current went the other. By bedtime, the wind was howling, so Craig and I decided to stand anchor watch all night. This was the first time we had to stand watches without the boat moving from point to point. Craig took the first four hours, and then I took the next four. At least we could read while on watch, so it wasn't too boring. Fortunately, we were fine, but we heard on the radio the next morning that one of the other boats dragged anchor and were heading towards the Candelabra rocks! His anchor alarm alerted him, and he and his now angry wife, reset the anchor at night, which is never a fun exercise.
We left that morning and stopped one night in San Francisco anchorage before going to La Paz for three days to wait out a storm. It was only bad one day, the port of La Paz was officially closed (no boats could go in or out), so we were glad to be sitting at a dock. We also needed fresh food. My creativity with canned food was challenging me.