Off Again

April 7, 2025 
The trip from Bahia Chamela to the Bahia Matanchen anchorage near the town of San Blas where we would be hauling out our boat was approximately 150 nautical miles.  We broke the trip up into three separate days and we had the perfect weather window with no north winds.  We actually had minimal winds, but we did get some time of southwest and west winds each day to help push us along on our journey northwards. 
The first day that we headed out from Bahia Chamela the seas were still quite large and lumpy, left over from the northwest winds that had not died down until early in the morning.   
With our fishing lines out we caught four Bonitos. We only kept one small one because Bonito is best eaten fresh. The other three that we caught were probably the largest Bonito that we had ever caught, but luckily they were easy to release. After catching all four Bonito we stopped fishing as each time that we caught a fish we had to slow down and deal with the lines and the fish.  We decided that since we had one fish for dinner we would not keep fishing even though we were hoping to catch a Mahi Mahi on route to San Blas. 
We saw quite a few turtles on our travels that day and also two very large pods of dolphins. One of them came towards us and passed us by on the starboard side. The other one came up behind us, but they were not going much faster than we were and took quite a while to catch up.  Jason saw two dolphins come towards that large pod and then all of a sudden the entire pod turned around and headed full speed back in the direction that they had come. Perhaps the scouts had found food? 
We anchored in Ipala after our first day of travel and had a restful evening and night.

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  1. ColleenMay 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM

    Dolphins are great communicators! Your adventures have been great to read and watch Falcon grow. I enjoy your blog very much. Hope you continue and keep us all up to date on your journeys and Falcon's growth.❤️

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