Mainland Bound

Since my last message we have spent two nights at anchor and one offshore. After a night anchored in Caleta Lobo where we checked out the sea lions on the offshore rocks, we headed up to Caleta Partida for a night where we had a motor yacht dragging down on us during the night. I decided not to wake Tim given he'd already been up several times and I could see that the crew of the yacht was paying attention. Upon awakening in the AM the yacht was sooo close to our boat! They had definitely been dragging overnight. We decided the weather looked good to make the jump so we headed out. We are currently about halfway to Mazatlan but may decide to head a bit further south depending on the wind.

For some excitement yesterday afternoon we trolled by an offshore rock off the tip of Cerralvo Island (Tim was also scoping it out for free diving). We caught another Bonita and let it go. Meanwhile in the excitement of landing the fish I forgot to slow the engine and overpowered our autopilot and now it won't shut off! We are managing with workarounds and Tim has figured out a fix. Thank goodness for his electrical skills and understanding of the autopilot system!

Late afternoon we had a visit from a pod of dolphins leaping completely out of the water right next to the boat! And what looked like a mom and baby were surfing our bow wake as I watched over the bow rail. So cool! We had never seen that kind of display so close before.

Last night at sundown we were circled by a brown booby (bird) who spent the night on our bow rail. He looked like a juvenile. Tim tried to give him the flying fish which landed on deck overnight but he just looked at it. After he was gone several hours he returned hoping to hitch a ride again but Tim shooed him off figuring he needs to learn to fly😋(and cuz we don't want any more poop on our deck.

Ok my turn to head back on deck for watch. Will update when we reach next destination.