We sailed north from Playa Burro day before yesterday, hoping to make it to Muleje and Punta Chivato. However, we encountered 22 knot winds from the East. The winds did not concern us, but the anchorages we were heading for are good for North or South winds, but totally unprotected from the East. This would have likely ben a very unpleasant, or even dangerous, anchorage on a lee shore at our destination.

With that in mind, we headed to the nearest anchorage offering protection from the east, which was Santo Domingo, on the northern extremity of the eqst end fo the Bahia de Concepcion.

There's a boat here, INCLINATION, captained by GARTH and his dog VELA, who's a regular here. Garth is really well connected with this area, he has an uncle at Mujele, who grows vegetables (he gave us tomatoes), and other family at a fishing village on the peninsula (he gave us come clams also, and we bought a kilo of fish fillets from the villagers). All I can say is, Garth on INCLINATION is a great guy to know, extremely nice and helpful.

He even showed our boys how to dive for clams, and the boys brought up a dozen "chocolates" (clams named for the brown color of their shells) and "steamers" (traditional U.S. clams, so named because the only way to open them is to steam them).

So we had a lunch of clams, even ultra-picky Antoine tasted his first clam, and loved it).