Heading into an anchorage

I have heard from many of our friends that they love all the pictures so I am going to give you the feeling of heading into a strange anchorage just a Rog and I experience it. Unfortunately you can not hear the discussions that are taking place--are you sure this is the right bay??? The chart plotter isn't matching up!!! Chartplotter shows us anchored 3 miles ashore!!! Di, take the boat into 20 ft of water and head up into the wind. No--that is not where I want the boat--too close to other boats-- too close to shore--- no no no!! Anchor is down just where Rog requested but not necessarily where I want it. He has never been wrong yet so I will have to go with it.


So here we are, going into Manzanillo Bay, about two miles out. We will be going around the second headland to set anchor in Santiago Bay which is inside Manzanillo Bay. Make sense

We are beginning to make out a bit of civilization so we must be headed in the right direction. We need to keep the rocks 25 meters to port to miss submerged rocks. As usual, Rog and I disagree on how close 25 meters appears--I want to be at least a mile off!!! Just in case but why go that far off course.

We can see a bit more but still not sure exactly where we are going. I think we will be heading 30 degrees to port soon

There it is --Santiago and what a beautiful spot to anchor. Rog and I should have plenty of room to swing. Just need to head in to shore.

Palapas!!! Never fear we will be able to eat. You can tell I did not have Rog drop anchor quite as close to shore as he would have liked but what you can not see is the shore just off our starboard side. It is close enough!

We have made great friends with Steve on this beautiful Slookum 43. With any luck she will be returning to the bay area for us to sell.

Next closest boat in the anchorage is a steel hull boat built down in New Zealand. Ken and Judy have been our cruising buddies since the day we arrived in Tenacatita Jun 3rd. Lots of fun and another beautiful boat we hope to sell.

We go ashore for a road trip and where do we find ourselves--Tiburon! I think we will be able to tell the cab where to bring us back to after a day of exploring Manzanillo

This residential development in Santiago Bay is really nice. Best looking streets we have seen in quite awhile

We were off the boats by 10 am and did not return until dusk. We met two wonderful Mexican builders who showed us the town and the condos they are selling for 150,000 US dollars. That is a story for another day.

Tomorrow we move the boat to Las Hadas