Yesterday ended up being a very busy day. I arranged a grocery store run for our buddy boat SV SeaBear, they had just come over from La Paz and needed a small resupply trip. Kathy SV BlueDolphin, JC SV SeaBear and I made a fairly quick trip to the store and grabbed a bit to eat. (Breakfast/Lunch?)
Upon our return we found that "everyone" was waiting for us to head over to Stone Island for pizza. Our crew Leo was back from his big adventure to Guaymas and was really hungry and pizza sounded perfect.
So we all met over on the dinghy dock. Somehow our group had grown to over 12! Word gets around when you are talking about good pizza.
No trip to the Old Harbor is complete without a water taxi ride over over to Stone Island's Benji's Pizza. We arrived in time for a late lunch I think. We enjoyed 6 pizza's with different toppings (pepperoni, veg, mexicano and their famous shrimp pizza. They were all eaten so fast I didn't get a picture. Eli served wonderful margarita's and his pina colada with a punch! The coconut shrimp was also a big hit. Just after we finished eating pizza Eli came over to our table and announced we were all going on a field trip, follow him! OK! I love field trips. Turned out there had been a BOA siting just behind the restaurant. It was big, very big! BOA's? here? what the? I hate snakes, I have just about the same reaction as Indiana Jones.
Everyone else got up real close to it and took some pretty good pictures. The snake actually made a pretty loud noise which sent me off in a different direction. They were entertained for quite a while by the snake. I spent the time picking stickers off of Tuckers paws.
After bothering the snake we, the "Crew" kids (they have decided I'm ok and can hang out with them) we decided to hike to the top of the little mountain at Stone Island and watch the sunset. Geez, sunset? I thought we came over for lunch. Oh well, I love a good hike so I scurried off bringing up the rear. It was a really good climb up the side of the little mountain. We even passed a bunch of goats. The scenery was beautiful and the view was spectacular. I think the view was better than from at the top of the light house mountain top.
We were so caught up in watching the sunset we sort of forgot about the rest of our group at the restaurant. We scurried down the mountain, back to the restaurant only to find that the rest of our group had already taken off. Opps, when does the last panga leave? Wow, it's really dark out here. We made it back to the panga at exactly 6:00 pm. Turned out there was one more panga ride for the evening. He tried to charge us again, saying we were late but we managed to get a ride without having to pay again since about 10 other folks came running down to the dock after us. He wasn't going hassle the entire boat full of people.
He delivered us to the other side of the estuary but not near where we had gotten on the first panga boat. So we decided to stop and have a beer at the restaurant on the point called La Pontilla, not to be confused with la putilla! The band was playing when we walked in, then stopped. They were done for the day. We could wait for 30 min. and pay 50 pesos to hear the next band. I don't really feel I need to pay to hear a mexican band in a bar. I can sit in the cockpit of the boat and hear a mexican band.
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