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Isla Coronados & Nopolo (The Final Time)

November 14-16, 2013

We had the north anchorage of Isla Coronados all to ourselves, and this time the water was crystal clear and the weather was agreeable to hike to the top of the volcano. But our stay an Isla Coronados was short, because we needed to get to Puerto Escondido for Tim to catch a flight back to LA for a few days. But before heading into PE we stopped for a night at Nopolo for the best free wifi around. We didn’t take many (any?) photos while at Nopolog because we all had our noses in our computers and/or iDevices, because, duh, we had wifi.

Depart San Juanico 0844 Nov 14 – Arrive Isla Cornados (North side) 1303.

Logbook – November 14, 2013 (San Juanico to Isla Coronados)

Passage Log Highlights

  • 0820 Engines on (SB @ 0833)
  • 0844 Depart San Juanico
  • 0909 P engine off
  • 1136 SB engine off. Main + Genniker.
  • 1237 Engines on
  • 1303 Arrive Isla Coronados N side

Daily Notes

  • Isla Coronados all to ourselves
  • D/T – scout the trail head – ready for the hike tomorrow
  • Breakfast for dinner!
Tim and I went ashore to scout the trail head. You can see that Exodus is all alone in the anchorage.
A very nicely marked trail leading away from the beach
Our hiking destination (the top of the volcano, not the outhouse in the foreground)

Logbook – November 15, 2013 (Isla Coronados to Nopolo)

Passage Log Highlights

  • 1431 P engine on
  • 1434 SB engine on
  • 1440 Depart Isla Coronados
  • 1552 Engines off. Main + Genoa.
  • 1653 Engines on
  • (Illegible – one of the boys’ handwriting) Arrive Nopolo

Daily Notes

  • Hike to the top of the volcano (Isla Coronados)
  • Caught 4 sierras and 1 HUGE crevalle jack (20 lb) underway. Kept 1 sierra for sashimi
  • Dinner at the restaurant at Nopolo
Do they look ready for a hike or what?
This next series of photos are the views as we made our way to the top of the volcano
The terrain was rocky most of the way up
Made it to the top! It took us exactly 2 hours for an elevation change of about 1000 ft.
Just a lizard enjoying the million dollar view
Hey look, mom went on the hike too!
Made it to the bottom

Adios, Isla Coronados
A huge crevalle jack caught on passage when leaving Isla Coronados. Tim let it go, because they are not good eating. It was quite an ordeal to reel it in, though
Depart Isla Coronados 1440 Nov 15 – Arrive Nopolo illegible time written in the logbook
Anchored at Nopolo

Email to family and friends dated November 16, 2013

Subject: Nopolo then Puerto Escondido

Hi, We are currently anchored off of the resort at Nopolo. We got here right around sunset after spending the day at Isla Coronados hiking to the top of the dormant volcano. It was a somewhat challenging hike, and both boys did it with minimal complaining. Lady Carolina gets back today to Puerto Escondido, so we are going to head in there this afternoon. There is also a big 20th anniversary yacht club party there tonight, so maybe we will join in that. We will stay in PE until Tim arrives back from LA on the 25th so we should be pretty well connected until then. I’m not sure if we will have wifi from the boat, but we should have a cell signal and can at least go ashore to get wifi.

-D.

At 11/15/2013 2:55 PM (utc) our position was 26°06.78’N 111°17.00’W

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