I departed Puerto Los Gatos at 6:15 AM with the objective of reaching Agua Verde or Puerto Escondido. The winds were light from the North at about 5 to 7 knots. After re-reading the description of Agua Verde in Shawn and Heather’s cruising guide, I decided to stop in Agua Verde. It sounded like a very nice stop. I arrived and was anchored by 10:10 AM. The trip was very smooth with light wind the whole way.
I am sharing the anchorage with three other boats. One is “EverGleam” a Tarten 34 out of Montana with George and his wife aboard. Another is “Dream Catcher” a Cal 2-46 out of Eureka with Margie Simpson and Chuck Simpson aboard. They stored the boat at Marina Seca in San Carlos for the summer. Margie stopped by in her kayak and invited me to join them when they walk to town at 1:30 or 2:00 PM. A third very small boat pulled into the anchorage late this afternoon but I did not catch its name.
At 2:00 PM “EverGleam”, “Dream Catcher” and I took our dinghies to shore and walked to the fishing village. There are two small markets in town. We stopped at the first store but it was closed. We then walked to the tortilla lady’s house and ordered tortillas which she made to order. They were ready about 30 minutes later. Finally we went to Maria’s store but she had relatively little in stock. Maria said that the truck is not slated to make another delivery until Friday. I did buy locally made goat cheese from Maria. On the way back to the boat we stopped by the first store a second time, and as we did so the owner drove up. She immediately opened the store for us. I call it a store but it is really a small single room building measuring about 15 feet square. The four walls are lined with simple wooden shelves that contain cans and bottle of staples, bread and tortillas, simple pancake and cake mixes, Mexican packaged cookies in plastic rolls, and small bags of potato chips and other snacks. They have a small collection of vegetable usually including potatoes, onions, tomatoes, and sometimes avocados. They have a water filled cooler with Mexican canned fruit drinks such as mango, pineapple, peach juice, and apple juice. They often have soft drinks including Coke and Pepsi.
I really enjoyed Margie’s company. She was trained as a geologist and worked in that capacity for the US Forest Service for eight years. She then went to work for an electrical contractor and eventually started her own electrical contracting business. She is exploring the idea of serving as crew on the Pacific Puddle Jump between Puerta Vallarta and Tahiti. She is very spunky.
Tomorrow I plan to head for Puerto Escondido.
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