January 2017 Part One

It's been a long time since I've sat down to update our blog and now it seems a chore. Many times this month I've had no data or internet but the most frustrating part of blogging lately is that the blogger app keeps crashing then I lose the entire blog and have to start over, so I'm trying iridium email to blog. We'll see if pictures will post through the satellite.

There is a long list of things that have broken or have just gone wrong this month, starting with the head, then the AIS stopped working for a while and is still intermittent .

Next the trusty wonderful water-maker simply stopped working when Kev and family were still on board. We were able to buy water at Barra de Navidad so we filled the tanks with 160 gals. Al ordered a repair kit that his Sister Suzanne will carry down when she mets us in Las Hadas.

We depart Barra de Navidad on Jan.14th for Ensenada Carrizal 20 NM to the SE.
Ship Wreck just south of Barra


 It was a beautiful little bay with protection from the north.

 I guess we were lucky cause it wasn't too rolley that we did not have to put a stern anchor out. We stayed three nights, kayaked and snorkeled.
     


The generator starts shutting off like it's not getting fuel so Al changes the primary filter while still in Carrizal. Left there on Tues Jan 17th for Bahia Santiago. Only a 5 mile motor around to playa La Boquita

Leaving Ensenada Carrizal

Anchored at Santiago Bay

Had lunch on the beach after an exciting dinghy landing.  Watched a bunch of Canadians playing "Washers".   A beach horse shoe game with four inch washers trying to get them in to 5 inch cans buried in the sand.

Entering the Laguna in the am.

Looking behind me out to the Bay.

 



 
Took the dinghy up into the laguna for a little bird watching  before we headed around the next point  to Las Hadas , Manzanillo.