Agua Verde to Bahia Candeleros

There was a forecast for a bit of blow coming so we headed for Agua Verde, one of our favourite places, along with Greybeard, to shelter from the storm.  Searover II continued on further north to explore another anchorage.
We arrived early in the day and got settled in.  There were three other boats there as well, one of them Adios, another BCA member boat.
During the night we had strong winds that clocked around from nearly every direction!  It was a good thing that there were not too many boats in this small anchorage, as it was there was some unexpected boat movement in the night however once that one got reanchored all was well and we just had to put up with a lot of noise!  Being on a boat in a strong wind is very noisy and does make sleeping difficult even when you are not worried about dragging your anchor!
Once that event was over we had a week to enjoy the area, hiking, snorkeling and kayaking were all on the agenda.

Not too many green fields for these guys

The cemetary has been a little neglected and things are
falling apart.

A little oasis in the midst of desert

Ancient hand prints in a cave, Agua Verde has been populated
for a long time

Kayaking and snorkeling was awesome

The anchorage filled up after the wind passed

Outside the tienda in Agua Verde, we chatted with a couple
of guys that came in the 40 km dirt road on their cruising bikes.

We had a weather forecast for light winds that would last for days so we decided to leave Agua Verde and check out some new anchorages.  We headed to the north end of Monseratt because with the predicted winds we had a chance to check out some of the normally impossible to be at places.
A blue whale sighting in the flat calm water was quickly followed by a huge dolphin pod that passed nearby.  Such an exciting day!  The anchorage at Monseratt was still kind of rolly so we decided not to stay the night there and headed to Candeleros.  This bay is open to the north so normally is not a good place to be however the big sandy beach has always looked appealing.  There is a large all inclusive resort in the bay.

A beautiful resort sunset

The resort lobby

The resorts signature golf hole

And the requesite evening entertainment!

We thoroughly enjoyed our stay at Bahia Candeleros, we got visitor passes to the resort and were able to avail ourselves to the first class facilities there.  We were joined by Searover II after a few days and celebrated Scotts birthday on the beach and later had a lovely dinner at the resort restaurant. 

Mexico can provide some very stark contrasts, in Agua Verde they have to truck in ice over 40 km of dirt road to keep the food cold at the tienda, and a very short distance away we are sipping icy margaritas poolside.