Doug had arranged for our boat to be washed down before we arrived. It was good thing, apparently with all the birds in San Blas there was a lot of bird poo on the boat. The stuff is really caustic for some reason. If you get some on your bare skin you know it right away.
We arrived very, very late in the evening to the Marina San Blas. Everyone was already asleep or gone for the day. We had no trouble getting in or getting on to the boat, the marina is very secure and the guard knew to expect us. All was just fine with the boat. We hit the hay and slept very soundly.
The next day we regrouped and it took us a while to get everything together for checking out of the marina. We needed to pay the marina for some extra days and also pay the boat washing folks. I made one more walk through town and took some additional pictures and picked up some more pesos and food supplies for our trip to Mazatalan. I really loved the little town on San Blas. It was very, very cute with the best taco carts around. In the morning we bumped into some folks we had met from La Paz that where anchored in the estuary (Exit Strategy) and caught up a little. There was also several boats still in the Marina San Blas that were still there from when we left in December (Crescendo) and (Delfinis). The folks from Cescendo had just left to go home for a while and Delfinis was just getting done doing some boat repair. Apparently his boat had a lot of damage done to the keel when they came into the estuary so he had to haul it and do some repairs. He had followed a panga boat past the dredge barge and got caught up in the dredge lines. It was pretty bad news. He was able to make all the repairs himself with some supplies he had on board and some extra bottom paint from Crescendo. You really can't have enough "extra" stuff on board when you need to do an unexpected repair on you boat.
We headed out around 1:00 pm towards Mazatlan. The seas were incredibly calm and there was zero wind. It was SO calm I actually went below and made a nice chicken dinner. I was not even woozy which was pretty amazing considering I hadn't been on the boat for a while. We did not see any dolphins or whales on this leg.
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