We stayed in Turtle bay for a couple of days. Turtle bay was a small run down fishing village. The bay had red tide so we did not swim there. Topped up our fuel and we raised anchor on the Nov. 23.
Bahia Asuncion was our next stop, the water was clean and the town was nice. Stayed here a couple of days and then headed south to Punta Abreojos. This is the area were all the whales come to have their calves. We are hoping to go on a tour of Laguna Ignacio to check out the whales.
Punta Abreojos has a reef and lots of rocks around it so we ( at this point there are 5 boats in our group) all navigate carefully. Most of us have different chart plotters which show or do not show all of the rocks. Some boats go wide and some don't. We also have to negotiate lobster traps. Next morning a panga is going around selling lobster. In our mixed spanish he asks for smokes, sorry and then asks for candy. We put 3 handful's of candy and a couple of bars and pass them over. Grande, grande they say with a smile and they hand us a bag of lobster, and they are off.
We open the bag and there are 5 lobster inside. They were good!!!We were anchored a mile from town were we would catch a panga ride to the whale grounds we all raised anchor and moved. There was 15 knots of wind and we ended up drifting onto a lobster trap. Dropped the hook again, freed ourselves and we were off. Coming around the corner to the town an other boat is leaving. We learn that there are no whales down yet and no tours. What to do??? There is wind and time is a ticking so we all turn and head to Bahia Santa Maria, 132 miles away. So much for rest.
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