Turtle Bay Rest Stop

May 5, yes Cinco de Mayo, the day the Mexicans booted the French out!

No more cruising days for this guy. His anti-roll device
is a blue barrel hung off the end of his boom, i.e. Pelican roost.

 This harbor receives the whole Baja HaHa fleet every fall, giving Charlie a great sense of security as we lie anchored here within a couple of hundred yards of ugly reefs, rock walls and 8 or so vessels from the squid fishing fleet. When we arrived it looked as if we’d missed the Going out of Business Sale. Only one other cruising boat was anchored here. Now there are 5 of us and a couple of large power yachts. I guess we were the vanguard.

These guys have much wilder white brows than Puget Sound cousins.

Tomorrow we leave, headed for San Diego and US Customs. Charlie looked at the Magic Seaweed website aka crystal ball and after scrolling numerous times through the 3 hour intervals of the next few days, detemined that tomorrow is THE day.

What does one do for three days in  a place with one restaurant, no markets, community events, etc? We take a daily stroll on the dusty streets, visit the church with wonderful fishing themed stained glass, view immaculate cemeteries, stop at grocery stores, watch the squid fishery, and use the high school’s magnificent internet connection.

I truly appreciate the newly arrived troupe of cruisers with whom we had a beer and yarned away the afternoon at a snack stand on the beach. Tonight is the “Super Moon” expected to be 30% brighter than normal due to its maximum proximity to our planet. We will benefit from the well lit nights as we travel to San Diego.

Mexico, Adios! We’ll be back in Ensenada at the end of the month.

Super moon over our neighbor, a 90 foot cruiser. That was the view, no way to move him out of the photo!