It's now Monday morning and we pulled up our anchor yesterday morning and headed out again making our way farther north in the Sea of Cortez. Walking along the beach on Sunday afternoon was great fun and far less trash than beaches we've been on all over the world. Darn near pristine. Our trip was about 30 miles and we checked several possible anchor spots along the way having planned to stop in Los Gatos, a wonderful place with lots of unusual rock formations. We first stopped in Timbabache and checked it out. It's only a couple of miles south of Los Gatos so it was right along our route. We passed on it as it looked kind of blah especially as the sun had gone behind some clouds as we entered the bay. On to Los Gatos, one of the more popular places for boats to stop with anchorages on the north and south ends of the small bay. When we got there, there was just a bit of wind from the southeast and there were already 4 boats tucked inside with another getting there just before we did. Not really liking smaller anchorages with lots of boats(hey, four can be a lot)we moved about 1.5 miles farther north to Sam Telmo, another bay that's wide open to the east but gives good protection from winds from the west to the northeast. When we got there, it was empty as Los Gatos is more widely known so we dropped the anchor in the north section of the bay and set it and just sat back and enjoyed the view as several more boats made their way into Los Gatos including a Nat Geo boat down from the north. Meanwhile we were all alone in a very pretty place(pictures to follow once we get internet). About 1700, another boat was heading for Los Gatos from the south(Canadian) but once they saw how many boats were in there, they came north and joined us in our bay, anchoring nearer the mid section of the bay putting out two anchors, one off the bow and one off the stern so they would face into the incoming swell should it start up again. It was a nice quiet night though Daylight Savings just started and now the sun doesn't come up till almost 0720 and sets about 1930 so we now have to adjust to this new daylight schedule. Normally, it's dark by 1830 so we can come below, make an evening snack and settle in to watch some shows on the computer. Now it's still light well into the evening. Going to take some time to adjust. During the night, the winds shifted to coming out of the west in the low teens making our wind generator spin nicely on the stern. It's good having it there as that's just above where we sleep so we know what's going on out side. With our 88 pound Rocna dug into the sandy bottom, we knew we were not going any where and with the winds coming off the shore, it was a good place to anchor. Our neighbors had even put out a stern anchor so their bow would face out into the sea(east) and into any swell that might come. With the winds out of the west, their stern was into the wind so they stuck a buoy onto the stern anchor rode and dropped it allowing them to swing around so their bow faces into the wind. A more comfortable ride. It's nice and sunny but we are waiting for these winds to drop down later before we launch Puff and tour around San Telmo and back over to Los Gatos to visit since we haven't been there in 8 years. It's nice to try new places to anchor and visit old friends. Tracy made blueberry muffins yesterday and we had a couple more for breakfast this morning. Puerto Escondidto is another place we plan on stopping at as we make our way north in a day or so. They have a morning VHF net like many of the cities in the Sea of Cortez. It's supposed to broadcast at 0800 so we tuned it to see if we could pick it up. Instead, we got the VHF net from La Paz, almost 80 miles away. Now that's good reception for a VHF radio. Normally, it you get 20 miles you're doing well but at 80, that amazing. It's a "line of sight" type of radio so as long as there are no real tall places between where you are and where you are trying to receive it pretty good. We could only pick up bits and pieces when we were in Ensenada Grande when we first got to this side of the Sea of Cortez since there were high cliffs all around us. We never did pick up the net from Escondido.