11/6/2011 -- San Jose Del Cabo

It's 1345 local and I'm anchored outside the breakwater at San Jose Del Cabo...

The charts show me a mile inland and I don't have a depth plan for the harbor so I anchored and sent Joe and Danny into the harbor in the rib to check things out...with no valid chart, I don't want to end up on the beach within a month of our departure...one of the drawbacks of a boat that draws 9'...

Joe and Danny will decide whether we stay out here at anchor or get a slip...since I don't have a schematic of the harbor, I'm assuming there's no anchoring inside...but I suppose I could be pleasantly surprised.

Were anchored about 150m from a shrimper...but I don't see any dinghy on board...if I see any signs of life, I'm going to try to trade some of Manny's T-shirts for some shrimp...this could turn out ok!

Part 2:

OK...Jose and Danny just returned...it's $50 to tie up to the dock no water or electricity...so we're going to stay anchored out and take off for Los Frailes tomorrow...we plan to hit all the decent anchorages on the way up the coast.

We got up early this morning as we had made plans to meet Jamie for breakfast at 0800 at Cabo Cantina...Jamie was a no show so Jose and Danny did their internet thing and then we headed to the super mercado so Danny could get some jelly to make his peanut butter palatable...we then jetted back to WWV and were underway by 1000 planning on trying to find SJDC anchorage/marina if it existed and heading on to Los Frailes if nothing looked good.  About 1230 a sailboat coming from the mainland cut in front of us on a course to something that looked like a breakwater so we followed him in and you know the rest.

Turns out the controlling depth is 4m so we should have been ok, but since the charts have me a mile inland, I'm just as happy sitting outside the breakwater on a hook.  No sooner had we set the hook than a Mexican Navy patrol boat sped by and waved...I'm taking that as a good sign...we're flying a full size Mexican flag...and that doesn't hurt...

I'm making water as we sit here on the hook...it will take a couple of hours to fill the tanks as I'm only making about 35 gal/hr because I don't want to put too  much stress on the membranes or the pumps...We're going to break now for a brewski and probably head to the beach for a dinner in one of the local restaurants (of which I hear there are two...)