Hola. We continued to work madly on boat projects in Mazatlan - not realizing that we were there during the Easter week, which is the busiest time of the year. Lots going on. We cast off the lines at 3:00 a.m. under a dazzling full moon to head over to Isabella Island, which is a national park with blue footed boobies and nesting frigates, happily cohabitating. Our departure from this remote island was our first adventure. At midnight we left (the full moon now clouded over). The seas had started to pick up and the boat was pounding up and down while we tried to up anchor. No luck...completely stuck! (sounds like something out of a Dr. Seuss book).
Peter remained calm in spite of the dark, the pounding seas, our brand new electric windlass (the mechanism that brings up the anchor) not doing its job AND a boat at anchor fairly close by. He had to take off the new windlass and put back on the old one and then he had me drive around to "unhook" us from whatever we were stuck on in this anchorage which is reputedly known as an "anchor eater". Success.....and we were off and sailing towards Puerto Vallarta.
We've spent about five days here at the marina. We only stay in marinas when we have work to do, (i.e. fixing heads) since we far prefer to be out at anchor. The highlight was spending a day with Jodi/Melissa and their family at a local resort, although Peter,Jodi and Melissa's drinking competition resulted in a non-productive next day. We did take advantage of Peter feeling under the weather to go out in our dinghy in the canal in search of crocodiles. We were very lucky to see two of them....how very cool.
This is where we are heading....
While here we also picked up the 13 foreign country courtesy flags we had sewn by Anni on SunSeeker. See if you can guess which ones they are - hint we will be sailing to these countries this year and next. I'll put the answers in the next blog update I do next week. (P.S. This is mostly for Kieran and Shelby to figure out). Anyone that wants to guess can send me an email at svquickstar@gmail.com.
As soon as we finish a few odds and sods we will be sailing over to La Cruz and anchorages further south. We will have most of the anchorages to ourselves as everyone who is still in Mexico is heading north to the Sea of Cortez to be well out of the hurricane zone which officially kicks in on June 1st. Those that have crossed to the South Pacific have already done so. We will be leaving a few months behind the "crowd", but this is because we are going to the Galapagos and also will be spending more than one season in the South Pacific, so we don't need to rush there. Besides we don't want to worry any of our friends or family by doing anything the normal way.
We will be out of internet range for the next 10 days or so.
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