Bee LLandra

Puerto Ballandra, BCS, Mexico

Short trip today, covering about 16 miles from Puerto Escondido to Puerto Ballandra.

 We sailed with both the main and genoa for 3 hours, with a light south wind, achieving speeds between 1 and 2 knots. At this rate this would have been an overnight passage so we turned on the engine and motored most of the way. Puerto Ballandra is a pretty bay on the north end of Isla Carmen, an island about 9 miles due east of Loreto.

We set our anchor in what we thought was over 20 feet of water but when the boat swung around we find we are only in about 10 feet now - still should be enough although it seems awfully shallow to us sailors used to the deep waters of British Columbia. Fortunately here the tides are only about a 2 foot range right now (That will change dramatically as we make our way further north in the Sea of Cortez).

We think the bay should be renamed as Bee-LLandra. As soon as we were anchored they started coming over from the land to check out our fresh water supply. At this point we seem to have gotten the majority of them out of the cabin and have all of our screens in place so hopefully we will have a quiet night. We will be out of here first thing in the morning regardless.

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