Hanging out

Playa Santa Barbara, Bahia Concepcion, BCS, Mexico

Nothing exciting to report.

After spending a few days at Playa Santispac, talking to some other cruisers and listening to the morning weather on the SSB, we decided to delay out departure from the Bahia Concepcion area for a while. We would like to get up to the village of Santa Rosalia, but it appears that that is not a unique idea just now. It sounds like the marinas are full and the anchorage is very crowded.

 Apparently one of the cruisers who makes this journey every year wrote an article for a popular cruising publication, extolling the virtues of a summer spent in the Sea of Cortez. This has resulted in an increase in the number of boats that are heading that way this year, making it much busier in the small harbors like the one at Santa Rosalia.

Since there is no real rush to get much further north just now, we instead just moved to another anchorage in the Bahia Coyote area called Playa Santa Barbara. It is very nice and secluded, with no houses or palapas on the beach, and the highway is several miles away so we don't hear the traffic noise. At this time there is only one other boat in the bay with us. We have spent our time lately swimming, snorkeling, exploring the coast (mangrove swamps here) by dinghy and just generally doing nothing. The daytime temperatures are around 38C during the late afternoon and drop to about 30 at night - we are almost getting used to it.

Tomorrow, we will probably head back to either Playa El Burro or Playa Coyote where we can at least take a break and go to Bertha's restaurant for a meal out once in a while. Maybe in a few days the horde of boats will have left Santa Rosalia.

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