Plan "B"

Santa Rosalia, BCS, Mexico

The Mexican navy is not going to budge, at least for a week, or two, or three - hard to say...
More information leads us to believe that there is no guarantee that the fuel dock will actually have fuel even if the navy ships were to leave.  Add to that the fact that the marine station charges a 20% surcharge for fuel over and above the regular price at the pumps and it becomes less and less inviting to wait to find out if we will ever be allowed to try it.

Which leads us to plan "B", or possibly plan "M" (for Manual labour).  Fortunately for us, there is a Pemex station just a block down the highway from the marina.  If you look very closely at the picture on the left, you will see the green-striped Pemex station peaking out from behind another building - not really very far at all.  And as a bonus, the marina has a spiffy cart that holds our two diesel jerry cans quite nicely, making it an easy haul to and from the station (We are so glad we bought a couple of used diesel jerry cans before we left Mazatlan).  Five trips to the gas station and back provided the 200 liters of diesel we needed to fill our tank and we are good to go.  Note:  Even with the help of the cart, this seems like really hard work when it is 36 degrees and 70% humidity outside in the sun.  BTW: the price of diesel here in the middle of nowhere is about 77 cents CDN a liter.

While I was hauling the diesel, I noticed that a diver was cleaning the bottom of several boats next to us in the marina, so I hired him to do ours tomorrow morning as well - things grow so quickly in the 30+ degree water here that it is hard to keep up.  Once that is done, we should be ready to leave at any time - maybe wait for the south winds, that have left us for the first time for a long time today, to return.  Probably by tomorrow afternoon.  We plan on a late departure as we intend to do an overnight passage to our next destination, about 77 miles further north - just a little too far for us to comfortably do all in daylight and we would rather arrive early in the day rather than at dusk in a new anchorage.

We have taken the opportunity of these extra couple of days to revisit our favorite pizza place, and of course, our favorite bacon-wrapped hotdog stand.  Cuisine just doesn't get any better than this!

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