A Day of Beach Combing and Anchor in Caleta Partida
Sowell Family's Travels on Gijima
Skipper: Tim Sowell Admiral Tracy Crew Sean & Alex
Sun 31 Jan 2010 04:46
to explore the beaches and will continue tomorrow with sea caves. We swapped
to the bigger engine on the dinghy and went to the beach between the two
islands, and pulled up on a nice spit beach of very fine white sand. Ideal
for the boys to start their beach exploration of Mexico, they went off
combing the beach collecting shells, and dead fish, proceeding to build up a
pile. We were just down the beach from the Fish camp, which was deserted as
this was the weekend. We watched the birds (Terns) dive for fish in the
clear white to green water, and we built castles and found 100s of shells of
clams etc. The water temperature is ideal for wading but we now have our
water shoes to protect our feet as there are scorpion fish which lie there
and appear to wait to be trodden on. In the late afternoon we were we having
time on the boat, a school of dolphins decided to swim around the boat
chasing fish, which both boys enjoyed watching the dolphins just play so
close to us.
This is what was in the dream, being in a beautiful anchorage, basically by
ourselves (one other boat) and fish and dolphins swimming past and it is not
too hot or cold. I am feeling myself starting to relax, (symptoms I am on my
6th book, and I dozing in the afternoon, this indicates how tired I was), it
will be two weeks of this before I really get to a total relaxed state, it
has been a while since I have had this opportunity, and this will happen on
this island trip (similar to the times I use to arrive in Kenya after a
project commissioning where I would just sleep and read for a week to 2
weeks to unwind). You may ask what has changed why did it not happen a month
ago as we left, really we have just started cruising at cruising speed and
time, the two weeks coming down we were on a slow but definite schedule, and
the two weeks in La Paz I had jobs to complete, now I am at anchor with the
full family around me, and we are on our schedule, only next big time point
is to have the boat in a safe place by hurricane season (June). Another sign
is to see Tracy reading up on places to go, and starting to get into the
Mexico planning, typically she only starts once she is settled in, so this
is a good sign.