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New Friends and Montezuma’s REVENGE!!!!


J and I had been to Loreto a week or more ago and got some hielo (ice) that was made with non-potable water which we put in our cooler with some drinks and fruits and veggies…….thoughtlessly one day J gives me an apple as he is having one and about ½ way thru the apple I asked “Hey, by the way, did you wash these apples that were in that cooler in the water?” When he answered ”no” I just HOPED really hard that we would not get sick…..and sure enough we both came down with Montezuma’s REVENGE!!!!!! We were both sick for about a week just drinking lots of water (potable!) trying to rehydrate and first I got better then J did as we hung low at Bahia Marquer till we were well……boy will we remember to wash our fruit from now on!!!!!! No fun……..

A few days ago we decided to sail back to Loreto and run some errands, to the bank, to our favorite coffee shop that has wifi and makes GREAT moca/espresso milkshakes, to the store, pharmacy for Monte’s remedy…ha ha (read paragraph above again) and we set anchor and noticed a young man with a little boy in a kayak riding up along side the boat. J poked his head out and the young man told J his little boy asked to see the boat so J invited them aboard and he and the Dad (Jorge) sat out in the cockpit I was tour director to a VERY discerning 4 year old (can’t remember his complicated name which is even harder to spell). After several visits inside by the toddler, his father got up and thanked us for showing his little boy the boat and I gave him a picture of the boat on our boat card to keep…..J helped Jorge load his son into the kayak and then they took off waving adios……Dinner having been waiting for us beckoned to us inside and while eating I got up to get something in the galley and noticed something odd outside on the water…another kayaker was sitting alone in his boat seemingly yelling at himself and hitting his kayak with his fist…..J came up to look and I said “Something is just not right about that guy” and as J watched he agreed….so he decided to step into the cockpit and “greet” him as he neared the boat.

After trying to converse with the kayaker J realized the guy had had a LITTLE bit too much cerveza (beer) as he was requesting another from us! J told him we had agua mineral but no cerveza which he didn’t have any interest in but he kept speaking Spanish and J kept speaking English and all seemed ok for a bit. In the meantime another kayak came up alongside the cockpit with 2 young teenaged boys inside and they asked us if we had some water they could drink. I went inside and got them each a cup of agua mineral which they drank in short shrift, thanking us and handing the cups back to me. We then asked the boys if they could understand what the “tipsy” kayaker was trying to say to us and they called out to him and he kept mumbling and eventually they gave up and waved him off like we had tried to do and paddled off. That left us alone with Mr. Cerveza…..he continued to row over to the side of the boat along side of us “wanting” something we could not understand. Finally he asked for a cerveza AGAIN and J told him (in no uncertain terms) that we did Not have any cerveza but would be glad to get him a cup of agua mineral, which J did and handed it to him. This kayaker again started trying to converse with J and both were getting a little “peeved” with each other so J states: “That’s it! Vamenos (SP)” and then J proceeds to tell me that we are “getting out of there as this guy has really pissed me off!” So I get up to ready the boat as well and the guy seeing us take off throws the cup angrily at us and hits the boat with it…J then is so peeved he “flips the guy off” and calls him a “Pendejo” or something like that and by THEN we are getting up a little more “steam” via the Perkins 4.105 engine and we leave the decidedly drunk dude in the wake of Wind Raven. Just as we were pulling out of Loreto the most outrageously brilliant sunset we had ever seen was setting over the town, but for once J was too busy to capture it on film for our blog viewers…..

So off we steamed back to Bahia Marquer which is the nearest anchoring we felt comfortable reaching in the dark , with J grousing about the drunk guy ruining our day in Loreto……we finally made it to Bahia Marquer (sp?) about 11:30 pm and J asked me to take the LED flashlight and shine it in front of the boat to make sure we didn’t get too close to shore when anchoring. As I walked up the side of the cabin I kept hearing some sort of squeaking noise and a plopping sound beside the boat in every direction. As I swung the flashlight around I spied turquoise colored FLYING FISH taking wing and landing hither and yon about the boat…..THEN as the light grazed the water’s surface I saw these brilliant blue/violet “needle fish” which look kinda like rubber clown snakes with a long mouth, full of needle teeth to gather up their prey and other tiny food items…..As I swung the light from the flying fish to the blue serpent-like fish J starts yelling, trying to find out what I am doing shining the light EVERYWHERE BUT WHERE HE WANTED IT…….so he walks up the cabin side and I showed him the flying fish and the needle fish and we have fun “herding” the needle fish using the light to get them to swim here and there and back again…..After this “fun” J decides to use a rod with some line and a hook on it to “snag” some needle fish to use as bait to catch trigger fish in the morning. He snagged 4 and caught about 4 trigger fish with it the next day and gave one fish to our neighbors who had just anchored nearby. They came by later (Phil and Anna), and we cooked up some fish and rice and corn and we all had our fill. J then tried to fix Anna’s reel, taking it apart and discovering a broken “spring” so instead of putting it back together we gave Anna a zip lock for it and told her that Feromar might have a spring for it and she decided to check with them.

Earlier in the afternoon we had met Richard on his trimaran “Trinity” and gave him some fish too and he joined us in the cabin and J got a few instructions on how to download movies from Steve and Lulu’s hard drive to our new external hard drive…….hours later we had it almost all complete. When J awoke in the am today he finished with the movie downloading and gave our hard drive to Richard to copy as we headed back to Puerto Escondido. We DID get to sail about 15 minutes or so with 11 knot winds before we had to start the engine to assist with our passage. After trying to anchor outside P.E. and finding the water too deep for the reach to shore, we opted to spend a night on a mooring ball and took showers, ate dinner and sat on the deck to watch the water in our deck chairs on the bow. Tomorrow we will “sail” back to Bahia Marguer and see if Richard wants to go with us to the “Sunday Market” in Loreto with us……After making a few calls to the kids and checking our bank account on the internet wifi we are all set for another trip to “the islands” when we get up tomorrow….probably will take another shower before we leave…..love those showers in this