Bahia Santa Maria

Bahia Santa Maria was our second stop and a very welcome one at that. We sailed the entire leg with lumpy seas and spinnaker flying during daylight hours. We thought we were pulling into a much needed rest spot at the anchorage around 1am to find 25 knts of wind. Not fun anchoring when we were being blown all over the place and it was hard to determine how close the boats were. When we finally got the anchor down, drinks and strong ones at that were necessary. We went to bed around 2:30 for some much needed rest. When we awoke the next morning our location perfect - no boats close and land was even farther away. We hauled up the anchor and moved closer in by friends.

The beach party was very fun, make sure and ask Eric about Heather!! He didn't make me promise not to share the pictures.

The ponga was the best way to go ashore and the driest. We had seen too many groups end up in the surf so we took the easy way in.

The start for the last leg of the trip was a 7am so the captain and crew of Di's Dream stayed fairly sober for a change. We had been one of the first five boats to hoist or spinnaker on leg two and were trying for a repeat performance. She was up and flying quickly but we were so busy dodging 130 other boats I never looked back to see who else had hoisted the chute.