Bahai Santa Maria has been a wonderful bay to anchor in and to explore. One day Ava, Pajo and I took our surfboards over to the shoreline of Cabo San Lazaro to go for a hike. It was really windy and took a lot of effort to make it. There was a small surf on the shore that was fun to try to ride the SUP boards in on. Pajo lied on his belly and paddled his short surfboard to the shore. He had a tougher workout I think. Here are some photos of that trip.
Here is Ava from Cinderella with Bev. I just love doing things with Ava - her spunk and vitality reminds me of my two girls - Ada and Kara. It is really nice to have some "girl" time is what we say.
Ava and Pajo from Cinderella. They are planning to sail around the world and certainly have the adventurous spirit to do just that. Pajo is quite the geek and has figured so much stuff on his boat. They have an electric engine and are off the grid for energy needs.
This is me in case you are wondering.
This is the beautiful shoreline in the bay.
It might be difficult to see, but the boat in the center is Sea Casa and they are leaving and heading further south.
One of the chores that needed to get done was to wash some towels. It seems that once they are used for salt water drying, they never really dry out. So Dan tried washing them and then rinsing them with fresh water. This was how he wrung the water out before hanging them out. It worked pretty well.
One morning we took the dinghy across the bay into the estuary where the fishing villages are and the mangrove trees. A pretty large surf exists prior to the shore, but if we watched the fishing pongas take their boats in, we were able to follow their path and thus be on the best route. Once inside we passed the fishing huts.
Here we are in the estuary exploring the mangroves which are bushes along the edge of the water and they have interesting roots. I suspect they shelter a lot of young fish there as well.
The beach is 14 miles long and goes around much of the bay. While we walked, we found lots of sand dollars.
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I had fun picking up dome sand dollars thinking my nieces and nephew would like them. Now I have to figure out how to mail them to the states.
We followed the estuary further in and discovered another fishing village.
Dan decided he wanted to hike out to the surf camp located at the point - Punta Hughes. We paddled our SUP boards over to the shoreline and had a nice hike.
We met Maestro Emiliano who is the caretaker there. He said a "gringo" owned the surf camp. There were no guests there currently as there was no real surf at the moment but he was setting up areas for tents. He was very happy to have a few visitors and to talk chat with us.
Maestro insisted he take a picture of Dan and myself.
This is the area where they do the surfing.
This was Maestro’s desk with a computer playing music. He wanted to give us his contact information, and you might notice the surfboards in the background.
These were the tents the guest might sleep in when they come to this surf camp. I think my friend Diane would just love staying here!
The time was moving along however and we had to walk back pretty fast, as darkness was about to happen and we still needed to get to the boat. We made it just in time.
We then had to get things ready to leave the bay in the morning as we were heading to our next destination - a 3 day passage around the tip of Baja and north into the Sea of Cortez.
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