Published April 10 when we got service
We ran south from Punta Chivato to Santa Domingo northeast at the entrance to Conception. This is another beautiful beach. Like many around here, the water is relatively shallow for a long way out. We anchored in 20 feet of water, a long way from the beach. The three of us went in the dingy to the beach to stretch our legs. Daisy has become very brave. She will now jump from the boat into the water when we hit bottom. She loves running up and down the beach, but we do worry about her eating dead sea creatures. I had brought a large umbrella that I thought I could use to provide some shade for Daisy. She seems to get quite hot. I opened the umbrella and ignoring Earl's warning stuck it in the sand. It took approximately 30 sections for the wind to pick it up and blow it down the beach. It took about 10 minutes to catch up with it and then I only managed because it landed in the water which slowed it down. Earl enjoyed watching.
Like Chivato, this beach is covered with sea shells and I had to restrain myself. We were alone in the anchorage, until a small motor boat came in. A man and his young son came ashore and we enjoyed chatting. He is from Hungary, as is his wife. He gave up a teaching job and his wife gave up a law career to raise their two children on the beach. She is now an artist and they live off her earnings and he watches the children.
Easter morning the water was glassy. We decided to run south into Conception and see what it was that people loved about it. It was not a success. We ran into a small anchorage at Isla Coyote, a beautiful little beach, for lunch. Because of the holiday we had been warned away from the beaches that were more accessible from the road. There were some other visitors who stopped by the beach and a horde of bobos that visited us. The bobos drove us nuts. We finally put up the screens, but I think by that time we had a huge indoor population. We decided to head for an anchorage further south called Santa Barbara. We got close and then I read in the guide book that you might not want to be too close to the shore because of the bobos. We stayed about an hour, with the cabin shut up and getting hot, and finally decided to head north back to Santa Domingo. Even with everything wide open going back, we still did not get rid of all the bobos. We spent a good deal of time swatting them and the windows are now coating with a bobo smear.
One the way back we were treated a show by a couple of very small rays. They jumped and jumped and jumped. They must have been juveniles and just playing.
Santa Domingo had about 8 boats anchored last night including the Pyxis and Anon, but the anchorage is huge and it was quiet and peaceful. We had a piece of ham for dinner along with red California chilies which I had stuffed with raw rice and cooked. The owner of the little fruteria in Santa Rosalia had given me the recipe, and, as she promised, it was ‘muy rico’.
This morning we took Daisy for a walk to the beach (and to look for shells). The water is warmer here than outside and walking in the shallows is delicious. Earl saw lots of sign of clams but had no way of digging them. We were later told by a boater anchored near us that the chocolate clams which are delicious are only a couple of inches below the surface of the sand. He usually free dives for them in about 8 feet of water since in the shallows they have been heavily harvested. Earl told him that I would love to do that for him. We’ll see.
The weather today is lovely, but winds are forecasted for the next two days. We will go back south into Conception and check out the anchorages. Hopefully we will avoid bobos.
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