Bahia Santa Maria

We arrived in Bahia Santa Maria around 09:30 yesterday morning in light winds and clear blue skies. Indian Summer had arrived an hour earlier so we anchored not too far away. A nice anchorage protected from the bulk of the swell from the north. We have been getting long rolling swell but not that rolls the boat much. We are getting quite a lot of promontory winds sweeping down off the hills into the anchorage. Not uncomfortable and actually it's keeping the wind generator humming along nicely. We haven't been able to get ashore as the swells, although long out where we are, are still running up to 2 meters and when they reach shore, well the surf is pretty impressive and we don't really want to take the chance on swamping the dinghy. We're pretty sure we can get to shore but getting back could be another story. Today has been spent on boat jobs, oil change, top up the fuel from the jerry cans, change the water maker filter, clean up from some spoiled fruit. We're finding that fresh veggies and fruit are NOT lasting well. We're down to a few questionable carrots, a couple of onions and potatoes. Oh well, we have lots of canned veggies so we'll probably not get scurvy. The plan is to likely hang out here tomorrow and then start off on Thursday morning for Mazatlan. It's about 380 miles so we figure 3 full days should see us there. A few days there then on towards Puerto Vallarta to drop off David and Linda's new wind generator and mounting pole.

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