Capricorn Cat

Too hot to stay in town

La Paz isn't the only town with sidewalk hazards! It was so hot and humid in town that we only stopped in air conditioned places and believe me there were not very many! We did find all the necessary stores...ISSTE (grocery store), fruiteria, Chyitas hot dogs (we are not big on hot dogs but if you like them then this is the place), Church, museum, bakery and most important....the ICE CREAM STORE WITH THRIFTY ICE CREAM!!! We had beer for lunch and ice cream for dinner and we got out of town. We both were sopping wet with sweat. We will have to visit the town when the weather is about 20 degrees cooler.

Santa Rosalita

Santa Rosalita is an old mining town...dating back to the mid 1800's when copper was discovered. It is a friendly working man's town with absolutely no tourism. The church above was built by Gustave Eiffel in Brussels and then taken apart and reassembled here 110 years ago! It is very beautiful inside with cobalt blue stained glass windows...no airconditioning. The town is quite small with many wooden houses...shops underneath and homes above. The town reminded me of what Capitola might have looked like if it hadn't gone "yuppie". The wall in the picture above was about 100 feet long and made entirely of blocks of obsidian!

We made it to Santa Rosalita

Santa Rosalia is an interesting town.....the harbor is in need of improvements...lots of sunking boats and who knows what...anchoring is a challenge. Half the place is falling down and the rest is ah....interesting, yeah that's it interesting.

This needle fish flew into our dinghy while it was hoisted up about 5 feet in the air! Messy fish guts all over the dinghy. Yuck.

Next stop was Punta Mezquitio

Yup, that's me catching a huge fish...actually it was about 1 foot long and another Jack...not good eating. This beach is called Shell beach and for about a mile all you see are shells and more shells. Why they wash up here I don't know but there sure were a ton of them! I'm sure you can't see the sweat on my face but it is there! Must have been 100 in the sun and 98 in the water. As soon as we made it back to the boat we jumped in the water and hid out under the hulls in the shade for about an hour. We did cool off but it only lasted until we climbed out, took a shower and dried off, then we needed another shower!

whale shark in the anchorage

We took our time going up the coast. Wayne wanted to show me San Sabastian, an anchorage that he loved some 20 years ago...Well, it sure was lovely...we had internet and a whale shark!
This guy/gal was about 15 feet long and came cruzin' by the boat for about an hour. They are filter feeders...not people eaters. We ...at least Wayne.... would have jumped in but he had an ear infection and the wind was picking up and we were on a lee shore and it was getting dark and the next safe anchorage was 1 hour away so.....next time. Sure was exciting to see this huge fish up close!

Heading North again ..for the 3rd time?

We said "adios" to our new friends....Elizabeth and Adrianna from Austria and our old buddy, Terry on Manta and headed out the Puerto...all the way to Honeymoon Cove....about 1/2 hour away! Hey, at least we are moving! This pod of Pilot whales showed us the route to take. Must have been 10 in the group. We figured they knew the way and we just followed them for about 20 minutes.