A busy day here at Danzante Island
06 April 2018 | 25 42.410N:-111 12.954W
Bill
Yesterday, being Saturday, we expected some heavy traffic since we are close to Puerto Escondido and Loreto, one of the bigger cities along the Baja coast and we were not disappointed. As I was finishing running our generator early in the morning, over comes a nice sailboat and it makes its way into the south lobe of Honeymoon and drops their anchor and settles in. There was already a much smaller runabout powerboat anchored at the far end of the lobe. The boat that has been anchored in the far south cove(Divorce Cove) was still there. A short time later, over comes a nice smaller sailboat headed for that same cove but when they saw it was full, headed up to the cove we were in and finding them full, took off for a whole different island(Isla Carmen)farther to our east. A while later, in comes a trimaran and it goes into the north lobe and takes up the entire lobe since it was so narrow and puts out a bow and stern anchor and even ties off to the sides of the canyon. As they were getting settled, in comes a small trawler and they want to be close to the north lobe so they try a couple of times and finally get their anchor to set just outside the north lobe right next to the trimaran. Then in comes 8 kayaks, some one person and some two people kayaks. In the early afternoon, in comes a 68 foot sailboat and he starts searching for a place to stop as we are getting busy. In the end, they go south in the cove and drops their anchor in a sort of non cove but a good place to stop. At 68 feet, the three "official" lobes of Honeymoon are to small, especially the north cove or if they got one of the lobes to themselves. Shortly after lunch, the kayakers left and about 1700, off goes the trawler and then the trimaran. A few minutes later, out comes the 68 foot sailboat from the "non cove" and they take the space of the trawler. It had been running with their AIS on and obviously the 68 foot was watching and grabbed their spot. About 1730, in comes a 50 foot trawler that I'd been watching on our AIS from down south and they try anchoring next to the sailboat in the south lobe but found there was not enough room for both so they head over to our lobe as it's bigger. They come in just off our bow and drop their anchor about 50 feet to the north of where we'd dropped ours. These people were in a 50 foot trawler so not a small boat. They yelled over to us asking where our anchor was and after telling them that they were close to it, they pulled up their and were going to find somewhere else to try having not been able to anchor with out coming near other boats in their first two attempts. As they started out, I motioned to them to come closer. I yelled over for them to try the far south(Divorce Cove) as the trawler that had been there for the last week(about the same size) had left during the afternoon. They thanked me and headed out. We're guessing it was their first time here at Danzante. They motored down and we watched as their anchor was dropped and they settled in. With the winds(about 8 knots) coming from the southeast, they were in a nice protected spot for at least the night. Each boat had their own little slice of Danzante for the night. As we were going to bed, Tracy remarked that there was dew on deck, something we haven't seen since we got to the Baja side of Mexico. Earlier in the day, we watched as a bank of clouds skirted the tops of some of the cliffs here on Danzante, again something we haven't seen. This morning(Sunday) there was enough water on the dodger and bimini that it was running off in streams sometimes dropping water off the boom and everything out side is either wet or really damp, even in the cockpit. With the sun now coming up, it won't last long in the dryness of the Baja. It should be another beautiful day. Being Sunday, we expect more visitors here in Honeymoon Cove with it's three lobes.