With a mere 15 miles to travel, we elected to sail most of the way to save gas, even if that meant drifting at times in dead calms. For about half the day we had a light and variable breeze, but Blue Eyes is able to sail reasonably well in light air. After being becalmed for over an hour and still half a dozen miles to the anchorage, we elected to motor the rest of the way. As luck would have it, once we had the sails in and about 4 miles from the anchorage, the wind picked up to a nice clip, but we had already committed to motoring.
Upon entering the moorage, we were treated to a private, remote location. Beautiful lava walls around us, a little island nearby and a beautiful sand beach. Patrick went spearfishing to supplement the fish we still had from the Sheepshead. He managed to get a dousing of the Sheepshead, a Mexican Hogfish. Despite their name, they are actually beautiful fish. Check it out below.
Patrick is really enjoying the spear fishing because it allows him to snorkel (which he has always loved) with a purpose, providing dinner. It offers a new way to look at a reef of fish and allows him to select what will be eaten for dinner.
Fish tacos for dinner, guitar, rum, and a beautiful sunset in our secluded anchorage. Life is good!
I agree that the anchorage is pretty, but I disagree that the fish is pretty:)
ReplyDeleteYou guys seem to be drinking in a lot of these photos.
Yeah, it was an ugly fish, but it tasted pretty good in some tacos! Baja fish tacos!!
ReplyDeleteAnd cold beer once we've dropped the hook (anchor)? Of course, just so long as we leave 8 hours bottle to throttle...
So nice guys!!!
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