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Playa Sanispac, BCS, Mexico

After 4 nights here in Bahia Concepcion, we have moved only 3 miles, from Playa Coyote to Playa Sanispac, basically just different anchorages within the overall Bahia Coyote area. We have also visited Pasada Concepcion and Playa El Burro by dinghy, mostly exploring along the shoreline.

There is a restaurant in Playa El Burro (Bertha's) where we have had lunch a couple of times. Some of the other cruisers here in Playa Sanispac are going out for supper to Bertha's tonight, but we will have to pass. We have a fairly brisk north wind blowing right now and our little 5-horse outboard is just not up to fighting the wind and waves for the 3 mile trip back from El Burro, which is directly south of us.

The anchorages here are those picture perfect postcard settings. Beautiful turquoise waters, sand beaches, palm trees and blue skies. We spent a large part of each day in the water which is now warm enough that you can stay in indefinitely. Sue has been "aqua-jogging" around and around the boat, while I have been tackling the forest of growth on the bottom of the boat.

Since I do not seem to be able to master free diving, I have instead created a 10-foot long bottom scraper made up of a painting guide, an old handle from a broken mop, and the dowel left over from when I converted our hanging locker into shelves, all held together with plastic ties and gorilla tape. With this implement I have been able to scrape off the entire underside of the boat, right to the bottom of the 6-1/2 foot keel, all while just snorkeling around the boat. It is interesting that this process attracts the attention of a lot of the smaller fish in the area - I think they like eating the displaced weeds. It is a lot like swimming in a tropical aquarium.

Other than a lot of varieties of fish, we have also seen a few sea-turtles just cruising around in the anchorage. As yet, we have not seen the whale-sharks that are reported to be around, but we are keeping our eyes open.

Our current plan is to wait out the persistant northerly winds before we head further north - probably just a day or two.

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