San Evaristo

 

November 21, 2024   
From Aqua Verde we travelled south to the anchorage of San Evaristo.  We had planned our arrival with being there for protection from a north wind-blow that was forecasted, and although it was a decent anchorage with a small fishing village on the neighbouring beach, it was only the strong winds that kept us there. 
We went over to the beach one day and walked the length of the beach past the pangas that were at anchor and tied to shore. 
Panga is the name for the style of boat that is used widely by locals and fishermen in Mexico.   
We enjoyed tacos at a small restaurant and made use of their internet.  Here we discovered that out Starlink was to be delivered to the marina in La Paz that same day.  We had been planning to take our time from here to La Paz, but we did not want to make the marina hold our package for us.  Marina de La Paz does the cruising community a huge service by letting boaters who are not staying at the marina use their address to receive packages.  They get a lot of mail for a lot of boats, and we did not want to be the people who just let our package sit for days.  Checking the weather we saw that we were in for calm winds so we planned to head onwards the next morning. 
That night, while in the cockpit, we heard a lot of little bloop, bloop sounds.  We went out on deck with our light and when we shone it at the water there was an almost instant explosion of jumping fish.  After a little while it settled down and we turned off the light in awe.  We had not been expecting that.  The fish were small, roughly 4-5” long Needle fish, and there had to have been thousands of them.  As we shone the light around we could see them right around our boat, and also their activity further in and out of the bay.  It was very cool to see. 

 

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