Still anchored in Los Meurtos.  Pretty lazy today.  OK, REALLY lazy.   I spent much of the day napping in the hammock and Geoff spent it trying to spear a fish.  The fish didn’t cooperate.  He is very frustrated.   Bloodlust has returned.  He spent at least four hours today either trolling from the dinghy or spearfishing with his snorkel gear.  No luck, nada.

We changed roles later in the day.  I went snorkeling (although I know better than to try and spearfish.  It’s not as easy as it looks) and Geoff took a snooze on the cabin top after grudgingly consumed a PB&J sandwich.

Around 1600 we dinghied into the beach to check out the Giggling Marlin.  It’s a bar above the beach.  I think it was built in the hopes that there would be a resort here.  As of now, it’s just the bar and nothing else.   Most of the cruisers were there (there are about a dozen other boats anchored in the bay with us), so we “checked in” and joined them for a Margurita.  (For Ann: Valpariso, Otter, Double Dharma, and some others you know were there and we all had a nice chat.  They said to say; “hello!”)

Used the last of the eggs today and fried some potatoes with the last of the tomatoes, avocado and peppers and a little salsa and Sirachi Sauce and made burritos for dinner.  Out of the last five eggs, we had one bad one we had to scoop out of the pan.  We learned that when working with eggs that have been stored in the bilge for four weeks, it’s wise to break them one at a time into a bowl before pouring into the pan.  Not bad though, one for a dozen over four weeks without refridgeration.

Unless we catch fish tomorrow, we’ll be breaking into some of the dried goods.  The biggest surprise is that we’re been eating fish for over three weeks now and haven’t had to break into the longer term stores. Many of the other cruisers here are quite jealous as there are many reports of no luck at all while we’re catching at least one almost every day.

Tomorrow we leave for La Paz.  Early (hopefully anchor up around 0600).  It’s 55 miles and definitely NOT recommended to enter in the dark.  It’s not too likely we can get there before dark, so our alternate plan will be to stop at a bay just to the North called Estero Balandra.  If that doesn’t look too good there are a couple other options as well.  I learned today, that it’s Sunday, so that means we plan to get into La Paz on Tuesday. We’ll spend a day or two there, then go out to Isla Espiritu Santo for a couple days and explore that island before retracing our route back around the Cape and up to San Francisco.

That’s all for today.