From San Juanico we went to the east side of largest island in the Sea or Cortez, Isla Carman. We had the very large anchorage to ourselves. There is an abandoned town there that serviced a sea salt production area. The salt “pans” have been abandoned and so has the town. We didn’t get to explore the area because we anchored too far away. We chose our anchorage because strong west winds were predicted. We did kayak a bit and I climbed a hill next to our anchorage and took some photos of Vagari. At sunset the wind came from the southeast. We were exposed from that direction so I stayed in the cockpit until midnight when the winds went west.
The next day we went to Agua Verde. We had an uneventful motor trip with perhaps an hour of sailing but we had beautiful scenery all day. The shoreline reminds us of the Grand Canyon with horizontal bands of different colored rock.
A good sailing friend from San Diego had given us a video he had taken in Agua Verde. It was his favorite anchorage in the Sea so we were eager to check it out. Once again, it was the most spectacular anchorage to date.
We spent the next day enjoying Agua Verde and then off to Punta Gato (Cat Point). In the afternoon our friends on Dream Caper anchor next to us. A local fisherman/diver/entrepreneur offers to provide whatever Dream Caper wanted from the sea. We placed our order and in three hours received 2.5 kilos of very fresh lobsters for dinner on Dream Caper. If we told you how much we paid you would cry, but we did not charge him for the 4 AA batteries he wanted.
Rhea takes over.
So we meet our friends again! We decided to have a lobster dinner together. As previously mentioned our outboard motor is being “fixed” so we kayaked over to Dream Caper for the evening. Had a great dinner, Steve barbecued the lobster tails. We brought wine and vegetables and some beer. Had a great time – such interesting and nice people. Very different from Stan and I. At 9 PM we decided to call it a night. You haven’t lived until you tried to board a kayak from a catamaran in the pitch-black night. Stan gives his usual great instructions so I immediately tip over and go swimming. The water was great. I finally got into the kayak and gave Stan the same great instructions. It was a joke but – he thought his idea was basically good if properly executed Ha, ha! He went in also and we laughed all the way back to Vagari.
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