April 1, 2016 - Bahia San Marte

Our first visit here and as we approached we were happy that there were no other boats.  Once again we are conservative in how far we anchor in.  We always feel closer than it appears when viewed from above.  We planned an afternoon at the beach and brought umbrellas, towels and blankets to shore.  We walked around the point and felt a bit like we were at home in the San Juan’s as the sandstone was similar to what you see on Sucia.  We snorkeled and had a nice afternoon.  As the afternoon was ending, sitting on the beach and playing, we were happy to see our friends on s/v Kyrnos come in. 

Kevin trying to keep hold of our umbrellas before the wind takes them away

the rocky shoreline with Adagio behind

This is a little like the San Juan Island Sucia

getting hit by waves

skeletons from some sea creature were all over the beach
Or the island is inhabited by very tiny humanoid like beings.....

playing in the water

Cindy with white sand and black sand that was on this beach

Our second day we did school (of course), went to shore again, did some snorkeling, and then went for a beach fire with Fred and Janet (s/v Kyrnos) and their guests Charlie and Kevin.  Great conversation and fire fun.  Our kids will know Kyrnos as the “chocolate people” since they always have some fine chocolate bars around! 

Cindy flying Fred's quad copter/drone

the quad-copter

Us with Fred, Janet (taking photo), and their guests Kevin and Charlie

marshmallows by the fire

We spent one additional day and found ourselves with a quiet afternoon and the anchorage all to ourselves.  s/v Kyrnos left this morning.  We had a nice beach fire that evening as well.

heading to shore to start the fire

our second beach fire

Roasting marshmallows on the beach

Sea-lion that came to play at our boat on afternoon.

We named the rock in the foreground Candy Corn rock, since it the general
shape of candy corn, and had three layers like candy corn.

This sea lion played around our boat for a half hour or so

We have BOB for bird on the bow and now BOD for bird on the dinghy

Adagio to the left, Kyrnos to the right

Started this little fire from the ashes left over from last nights fire

a beautiful sunrise

March 31, 2016 - Agua Verde

What a beautiful stop and popular location this is.   We stopped last year and had a prime anchor spot.  This year we decided to take a location more open to the east and we ended up having a bit of a rolly night.  Another Hatteras LRC came in and anchored next to us.  Even though just 10 feet longer the other LRC dwarfed us and made us look like a baby!

Beautiful location.

Many powerboats in this anchorage.  We are the furthest one away.

Our boat on the left, it's a Hatteras 48 LRC.  On the right a Hatteras 58 LRC.

walking the trail

Cindy, looking northwest

the anchorage

a small cemetery just a short hike over the hill 

this pelican seemed to want a handout of food or something

Sea star while snorkeling 

Wrasse

The water was quite clear.  Panamic Sergeant Major fish

Brown Urchin

Kathy returning to the dinghy after a late afternoon snorkel

March 29, 2016 - Isla Monserrat

The north end of Isla Monserrat, Yellowstone beach, is beautiful.  We had heard there have been some westerly winds at night but decided to tough it out so we could check out this island.  As we neared Yellowstone beach a sailboat was leaving.  Steve hailed him several times on the VHF but got no response.  We were hoping to hear how the conditions were overnight.  No contact = no information exchanged.  Conditions were calm and we anchored in about 15’ of water in an empty, and breathtakingly beautiful bay.  We were the only ones here, and nobody else arrived during the afternoon so we had it all to ourselves overnight; always a treat.

View of Adagio from over the sand dune area at Yellowstone Beach
(click on image for a bigger version, as with all of our pictures)

We dinghied to shore after taking a tour of the shoreline to see what there was to explore.  The beach is beautiful white sand that backs up to an interesting yellow sandstone wall.  Very unique and pretty.

What a great, and unique beach.  White sand terminating in a vertical yellow
sandstone wall.  Nice!

Kevin climbing the sandstone wall, Cindy scraping away at it.

Not your typical beach.  The contrast between sand and rock is interesting.

We setup our umbrellas and then Kathy and Steve ventured out to explore the area.   There are rugged hills behind the sandstone wall and there is a dried up riverbed that comes out of the hills and ends at the sea, cutting across the white sand.  It must become a raging river when the heavy rains come as there was evidence of large volumes of water pushing debris long distances.  You could imagine and understand the erosion process by studying this dry riverbed and its banks. 

A large cactus knocked down and "flushed" downstream quite a distance from
the other cactus in the area

The river narrowed quite a bit but you can see it once carried water.

The outflow to the sea.  It must have a lot of water at times.

 There were bugs here, but not so many that it was unpleasant. We spent a few hours here exploring and relaxing.  It was relatively calm overnight, but the winds did kick up in the morning, so we decided to leave and head for our next destination; Agua Verde.

Another great anchorage.

Kevin and Cindy coming back down a little aroyo

Cindy walking the beach
Notice Cindy has mustard colored arms; the sandstone makes nice mud!

Great mushroom rock

View of the beach and the anchorage