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| Mission Our Lady of Loreto built in 1698 was the 1st of the California Missions built |
After doing some provisioning in Loreto we headed up to the next anchorage, Isla Coronado, which is a whole 6nm away, so that made for a really long day, well morning anyway and we did receive a dolphin escort so that made the whole voyage a little less boring than usual plus we caught a nice little dorado, which we turned into lunch.
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| Our dophin escort |
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| Isla Coronado |
After a night there we pull anchor before daylight and head straight back to Loreto and took Zero to see the local vet. Zero had been having some urinary problems that we thought we had resolved but he took a turn for the worst and got to the point where he couldn't pee at all. Poor little kitty wasn't happy at all. So we put down the anchor, load Zero into the dinghy, head for shore with Zero protesting loudly the whole way, a guy in the marina parking lot offers to give us a ride to the vet and the blond kid on the bike offers to watch our dinghy for us if we pay him, well okay, maybe if the dinghy is still here when we get back. The vet in Loreto gave him some pills and said he should start peeing again soon, and said to make sure he gets plenty of water, the total bill came to the price of the medication, she didn't charge us for her time at all, got to love Mexico. We head back to the dock, get in the dinghy, pull away from the dock just as the blond kid races down the jetty on his bike so he can collect his money. He had obviously been over at the beach swimming while we were gone and hadn't actually been watching the dinghy at all, so we weren't even thinking about paying him. He had a really pissed off look on his face, I'm scared to go back to Loreto now.
Zero started peeing again and he seemed to be getting better and then had a relapse and so were in the middle of another round of pills, which leaves me bloody every morning and him pissed off at me, I never seen a cat so reluctant to swallow a pill, he even pretends to swallow so I'll let him go and then spits it out. On the advice of one friend, we've been mixing apple cider vinegar in with his food and adding extra water to it. We bought him some grass seed and I have been growing sprouts for him to chew on, on the advice of another cruiser with a cat on board who had been having the same problem. I hope he gets back to normal soon.
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| Great Blue Heron at Isla Coronado |
We stopped in San Sebastian, a small little anchorage in front of a small little village if you could even call it that, about an hours drive over dirt roads from the main highway. There's about a dozen vacation homes there on the beach, with one guy who stays there pretty much year round. We made friends with a couple of the home owners and shared the dorado we caught that day. They gave us some wine they had made and we gave them a bottle of tequila.
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| San Sebastian |
Wanted to stop in San Juanico, everyone told us what an awesome place it was, but on the day we were there the weather was coming out of the exact wrong direction, making the anchorage very lumpy. We ended up anchoring around the corner in a place called La Ramada Cove. We did get to hike around San Juanico a bit, the snorkeling wasn't too good as the water visibility was low.
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| San Juanico |
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| San Juanico |
Next stop was Bahia Conception, beautiful spot, lots of neat little anchorages in the bay. First night there we were treated to a 360 degree sunset, a lot like the ones you'd see back in NM, color everywhere. It was hot there, like Puerto Escondido it's pretty well protected, so the air doesn't move much. The water gets really warm too, it was like jumping into a warm bath, hardly refreshing at all. We hadn't planned on staying more than a day or two, just long enough to make the hike up to see the rocks that sound like bells when you strike them, but ended up meeting some cool people, including the guy who was the 1st commodore of the yacht club we belonged to back when we lived in the delta, and so we hung out a few extra days. I think at a cooler time of year, we could hang out there for quite awhile, as it was, we were waking up to it only having cooled off to 90F during the night and 98F inside the boat during the day and that was with the sun covers up, it was just too much.
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| Series of photos is one sunset 360 degrees |
We sailed from there, we've been doing quite a bit of sailing actually, we've been lucky, to Isla San Marcos. So much cooler there, the water was quite refreshing and the inside boat temp fell below 90F before we even went to bed which was nice for a change. The bat rays have really been active the last few days, large groups of them flying out of the water, doing somersaults and backflips, fun to watch, hard to get on film.
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| Isla San Marcos |
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| Flying Bat Ray |
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| Sunset from San Marcos |
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We are now in Santa Rosalia, anchored in the harbor, this is the last town of any size we are going to see until we make the jump over to the San Carlos/Guaymus area, so we're trying to stock up while we're here. The humidity seems lower here and it cools off a bit more at night, so it hasn't been too bad. We meet a lot of cruisers who break down and buy an air conditioner, find a dock to plug into and never leave their boat again, I think it's better to just get acclimated to the heat and it also helps if you are out on the islands and can get in the water to cool off, which you probably wouldn't want to do in the harbor here.
