We awoke to a beautiful morning. Isla Gomez was deserted and Wanuskewin took their dingy off to explore so we had the place to ourselves. We took the kayaks over to the island to poke around. Because it was so calm, we decided to wash the kayaks which had been full of sand from previous adventures. We would fill them with water, shake them around and then with each of us taking one end, lift them out of the water to clean them out. They’ve not been so clean since we left Seattle.
Then it was time to pull up anchor. Melissa managed to do this without incident this time. Dave is jealous of Wanuskewin’s anchor cleaning system. Though at this rate Melissa would be sure to break that too if we had one!
We headed off to Boca Chica. The islands around here are beautiful.
But only minutes after that picture was taken, the sky started to darken.
And a few minutes later it looked like this.
We were in 3 feet of water (below the keel) in a shallow area. As Wanuskewin draws 1.5 feet more than we do, they were very hesitant to continue through this area in the squall. They preferred to wait till the tide came up a bit. Dave was also hesitant because the storm was blowing so hard. Even though we had our sails down it was still nasty. So we both dropped anchor to wait out the storm. Melissa got soaked to the skin putting down the anchor. Ironic because we were only one mile from our destination. The an hour later the squall was gone and a pleasure boat came flying past us everyone waving and hollering. They seemed quite amused to get their picture taken.
That night Melissa made beef stew in the pressure cooker, and we watched the movie Sahara.
