Isla Isabele

The overnight trip to Isla Isabele was sadly dull. We had a great breeze that carried us until around 8 pm then we had to motor until we anchored at 8am the next morning.

Approaching Isabele

Anchoring felt super dodgy. The bay was fairly open to the swell and we were watching it smash against the rocks sending up 10 feet of white water. And we were supposed to anchor near that? It was impossible not to imagine Asunto getting smashed against the shore. But imagination is not reality, so we set the hook clear of obstacles and settled in for two nights.

Nothing like watching waves hurl themselves against rock directly astern

On the second day we went for a bit of a walk- but I was super hot and the smell of bird shit was making me nauseous. Not to mention that Kyber was going crazy on the leash trying to chase the lizards- well as crazy as Kyber gets. They must have reminded him of squirrels. But the cool part were the frigate birds. They circled the island in the hundreds and nested in the trees at eye level. The males were displaying their full red red plumage while some momma sat on eggs. Other nests were older and the babes looked ready to fly pretty soon. It was completely amazing, and Fynn was in awe.

A male showing his colors

The bay and the birds

We left that afternoon for another overnight sail to La Cruz. This time we sailed a good chunk of it before motoring into the anchorage. Just to make it more interesting we arrived around 4 am, and to add another layer we no longer have charts for this area so we had to rely on radar and the GPS positions of a just rocks listed in our guidebooks. Funny how necessary we find GPS and radar and charts when sailors have been going without for centuries. Although they probably would just have waited for daylight before heading in to anchor.