It's now Saturday afternoon and we spent out first day here in Ensenada Grande. Yesterday, after taking a "Catch up" nap, I came out only to ge greeted with the fact that another sail boat had invaded out nice quiet cove. My response to Tracy was "Who invited them into OUR cove? We are used to having it to ourselves since most boats grap a place either at the south anchorage or the middle, but rarly here in the north lobe. Salish Sea, a nice looking boat was anchored a bit farther into the cove. We knew we had met them some time in the past but have no clue. We exchanged greeting and one of their first questions was "Do you have a blog?" My answer was of course, "Yes". Their response was that they had been following us for many years as we made our way around and had last read out posts when we were in the Caribbean. We exchanged more pleasantries including the fact that when they rounded the point and started coming into the north lobe, Mr. Salish Sea was made that someone was iin "Their" cove. What a coincidense that we both felt the same. Everyone that has traveled the Sea of Cortez has favorite places to stop and can be quite protective over them relishing the quiet and solidarity of "their" coves. We both laughed at both of us feeing the same way and went on to yell across the distance between the boats stories and plans. They are headed for Guymas to ge hauled out in a few weeks and would be leaving today to get farther north while the winds are good. Nasty 20+ knot winds are forecast for next Monday for several days so it pays to make distance when you can. It wasn't supposed to be windy today but we have winds in the mid teens as I'm typing this out of the east to northeast which would make sailing north pretty good if you can get the right angle. Really great if you are headed south.

All the boats that were in Ensenada Grandes three coves have taken off including a 200 foot tour boat(Safari Adventure) that came in to our bay late in the afternoon having passed our bow as we rounded the top of Isla Partida yesterday early morning. Theydeployed tons of water toys for their guests but kept to them selves not disturbing any of us. They left sometime during the night for their next anchorage. All the others have left during the morning with more coming in to take their place but everyone is staying out of "OUR" nice cove. Early this morning, I started up our Yamaha generator only to find it wasn't puttting our any volts. Well RATS!!! Not what we wanted to hear. I checked it with my volt meter and it appeared dead except that it ran. I checked it a few hours later and this time, it was putting out some really nice volts and amps for our batteries. We'd run the engine for about 90 minutes before I restarted the generator and once it was running right, we let her run for another 45 minutes or so. The batteries are now nicely charged and I've turned on the Duo Gen wind generator on the stern so it's putting out a few amps for us as well.

This morning, we grabbed rags and some really find sand paper and started in on cleaning off the rust on our stainless steel. Not hard work but with nets attached to all the lifelines and stantions, it's not the easiest to get to all the nitches in the steel. We also found that the bow nav light was not working so once we were done, I took it apart and cleaned the contact and bulb and now she lights up fine. Only problem is that at sometime, it got hit by something and the notches along the top of the light that keep the top closed have been broken allowing water into the fitting hence the corrosion. Once I'd gotten it closed, I put some electrical tape over the separated seam and sealed it as best I could.

For lunch, Tracy made us some Thai chicken with red curry. It's much hotter than the normal green curry and what she couldn't eat, well I was just fine at cleaning up her plate as well. Oh so yummy and there is even some left for another smaller meal. Don't mind if I do!! As of now, we sit, relax and watch more boats come and go in Ensenada Grande just to see if anyone will join us. Sure hope not.