01/11/15
The morning dawned clear, with a slight breeze, and dew covering all the horizontal surfaces. What a beautiful day! While the coffee perked I used one of my fake "Sham-Wow" rags to wipe up the dew. The weather is really nice - in the 80s during the day, cooling into the mid-50s at night. The ocean water is about 70 degrees. After breakfast Susan and I went for a long paddleboard trip to see the abandoned oyster farm ruins at the south end of the bay (see the photo in the previous post). Once you got through the narrow opening, it was a large man-made lagoon with rock walls and channels. We went ashore to look around and took some interesting photos, hopefully.

Back on board, we weighed anchor and started motoring to our next destination, Ensenada Del Candelero, about an hour away. We dragged the fishing lures with no luck through glassy waters, passing pink and orange cliffs and islands. We anchored in our usual spot near another sailboat. I took the SUP over to chat with the occupants on board. The owner, Gordon, is a retiree from British Columbia, newly arrived down here by way of the Baja Haha, which is how we arrived here over a year ago. We discussed weather and fishing, and I left him with an invitation to join us later for "Sundowners", which are evening cocktails when aboard.

We gathered our diving stuff and put the dinghy in the water, and headed over the the small island/giant rock pile the gives this place it's name - Candelero (Candlestick). We snorkeled around it, with Susan looking at pretty fish, and me trying to spear something for dinner. She was lucky, but I was not, so no fish for us tonight. We spent the afternoon being lazy. Our neighbor, Gordon, arrived at the appointed time, and we swapped stories about life and fixing boats, under an amazing sunset (pictured). After he left, we wrapped the evening with dinner and a movie. Just as we were turning in, we noticed that a large commercial boat had anchored across the bay from us, and was running its noisy generators. I'm glad they weren't any closer.