July 11-16, 2013
Isla San Marcos is an island roughly midway up the coast of Baja near the town of Santa Rosalia. We enjoyed 5 fun days there mostly anchored up at the north end of the island at an anchorage called Sweet Pea Cove. We also made a couple day trips to the town on the island where their economy is driven by gypsum mining. We had a great visit to the town and gypsum mine, and the hospitality of the Director of the Mine was outstanding.
Logbook – July 11, 2013 (Punta Chivato North to Isla San Marcos)
Passage log highlights
- 0820 Depart Punta Chivato North
- 1047 Arrive Isla San Marcos Gypsum town
- 1638 Depart
- 1723 Arrive Sweet Pea Cove
Daily Notes
- Explore the town at gypsum mine on Isla San Marcos
- Tim gets a ride on 4-wheeler from 2 kids
- Move up to Sweet Pea Cove
- Tim, Steve, Dan (Dazzler) go fishing, boys play on Lady Carolina
- D, Carolina, Kimberly (Dazzler) hang out on Exodus
Email to family and friends dated July 11, 2013
Subject: Isla San Marcos
We are stopped for the day on Isla San Marcos where there is a gypsum mine and a little village. We went ashore and met some kids who drove Tim around on a 4 wheeler showing him the area. We gave the boy, who’s 11 yrs old, a soccer ball and tomorrow we will try to take him some baseball equipment. I got to practice some Spanish on the kids, which was fun. We also met the manager of the mine and he is going to give us a tour tomorrow at 10am, so we are going to find a place a little further North on the island to anchor for the night. I told the boys it can be field trip day, so no other school lessons (yay mom!), but they have to demonstrate to me that they learn something on the tour (boo, mom!) We may have intermittent wifi, but if so, it’s from someone’s house, so we won’t want to be using a lot of their bandwidth, so no mass facebook photo uploads or facetime.
-D.
Logbook – July 12, 2013 (Isla San Marcos)
Passage log highlights
- (No time logged) Depart
- 0937 Arrive gypsum town
- 1330 Depart
- 1409 Arrive Sweet Pea Cove
Daily Notes
- Tour of gypsum mine and town
- Amazing hospitality
- T – spearfishing with Steve, Dan, Kyle
- D – Snorkel w/ Brenden – poor visibility, nothing special
- Kyle & Joel here for dinner. Sunset dinghy surfing.
Logbook – July 13, 2013 (Isla San Marcos)
Daily Notes
- Tim tried to fix the solar array supports
- A&B spent the afternoon & evening at Lady Carolina – games, dinner, skurfing, games
- D&T – surf & turf for dinner
Email to my mom dated July 13, 2013
Hi, yeah, we are still with Lady Carolina. The kids get along and we find ourselves compatible with Steve and Carolina too. They are also both engineers and have similar parenting philosophies (not too strict, not too lenient). We have found a few other kid boats whose parenting styles are minimalist, to say the least. So, of all the kid boats we’ve been with we think we lucked out with the one that is staying all summer. I just realized our visas expire sept 1, not aug 1, so we have a little more time to figure out a plan if we can’t renew in Santa Rosalia. The boys are hoping we have to come back to the US. I’m thinking if we don’t end up having to come back for our visas that I will bring the boys to Danna’s wedding. They miss everyone so much!
Logbook – July 14, 2013 (Isla San Marcos)
Daily Notes
- Morning manta ray show
- D/T snorkel – saw a golden grouper
- A/B – built a chess set out of legos
- T – boat bottom cleaning
- D/T – dinghy ride around the anchorage visiting other boat
- Cocktails on Exodus w/ Lady Carolina, Dazzler, Code Blue, Regardless, Harmony Anacortes, Interabang.
- Fish jumped into Alex’s head
- Whale in the moonlight – loud
Logbook – July 15, 2013 (Isla San Marcos)
Daily Notes
- Alex – punishment for leaving wet clothes on his bathroom floor – stainless and floors
- T/B – spearfish w/ LC – T got 3 cabrilla. Kyle lost spear tip and later Steve found it!
- Swim breaks during school – jellies in the water
- D – random swim break while washing dishes
- Dinner at LC w/ Dazzler
Gresham Family Exodus 