Topolobampo

Three Amigo's anchored in the Bahia

 Ah, Topolobampo in the morning!  Such a different place to see.  I woke up bright and early this morning to make sure we were still in deep enough water to navigate back to the main channel.  Everything looked good so Leo and I took Tucker over to the beach to empty his holding tanks.

Mucky, wet sand! Great fun!

We pulled up anchor and set off for the Yacht Club anchorage farther up the channel.  On our way up the channel a guy named "Pancho" came by on a jet ski and told us that we really needed to stay in the channel because it was shallow.  On our first pass we missed the entrance to the Yacht Club buoys, so we ended up at the end of the caravan again.  We hung back and watched both Blue Dolphin and Peregrine miss the next set of buoys and run aground!  Blue Dolphin had to wait for the tide to come back in.  Peregrine was pulled off by a nice power boat.  We anchored without any trouble but we are also way out in the middle of the harbor way away from everybody else.

Pancho asked what we were doing here anyways, and we told him of the alternator troubles on Blue Dolphin.  He said "No problem" bring it over to me at the fuel dock and I will go have it fixed.  Wow, really?  So that's what we did and as promised Pancho brought it back within the hour good as new.  At least we hope so.

Doug and Leo have been out in the dinghy buzzing around the harbor all day and landed a ride on a power boat going out for a short dinner cruise.  I guess Leo ended up cooking dinner for the group.  They came back to the boat long enough to grab the bread and return to the power boat for after dinner drinks.  Fun times in Topolobampo.  I think we will continue South tomorrow to Mazatlan.

Breakers at the buoy, this is where we were aground momentarily the night before.

  

Leo's French Bread