Wow what a place! We have been here for 5 days already, and we love it.  Bahia Coyote is made up of several small bays and beaches and a multitude of little islands.  We anchored off of Santispac, which has the best protection from the NW, and have been exploring in Otto from here.

The first morning out we came across hundred of dolphins fishing bait balls. We puttered right up with them and Kolby jumped in the water. The visibility was so poor her couldn’t see them, despite there being only 10-15 feet or less away, but he sure could here them! He said it sounded like an orchestra under water. As we watched the scene we began to understand it. The bait ball could move faster than the dolphins, and would eventually escape their feeding. However the birds would find them again first and dozens of birds would drop hundreds of feet from the sky in a gravity defying dive to snatch a fish. It wouldn’t take long before the dolphins had raced over and started feeding, causing the birds to slowly stop their dives. Then the whole cycle would start over again. It was memorizing to watch.

We have also gone in Otto to the lovely beach on Isla Coyote to explore it’s green lush shores, and puttered around Bahia Coyote, off of Playa Coyote in hopes of finding a whale shark. We have zoomed around the islands, played on the beaches and walked the roads. Fynn saw Dad go up the mast and wanted to try that too, so we strapped her in the bosuns chair and made it into a swing.

 We have also been doing a lot of boat jobs, like check that the radar still works – it does! Repair the water maker which burst an end cap off the membrane housing. So far that repair has been successful too! We have also done regular maintenance things, like replace the fuel filter on the engine and polish the back transom, which gets pretty dirty from the engine exhaust. We have replaced the steaming light on the mast, which broke somewhere between Vancouver and Mexico, and replaced the motor on the electric head, so finally that has stopped leaking. Throw in a handle of other small things and an outboard repair and we have been pretty busy. It is a good feeling though to get some of those nagging things off the list, but it would be even better if stuff would stop breaking. Somehow I doubt that ever happens.

Yesterday we had dolphins swim just past our transom and I got on the paddle board to play with them. Then today at low tide I collected a meal of butter clams from the beach, which I steamed in broth. Just delicious. We will stay here a while still, as there is more to see and do!

San Juanico is a lovely sweeping bay with sharp jagged point bursting from the water. We will stop here on our way back towards Loreto to explore it better, but the forecast is calling for calm winds tomorrow, so we will leave early to make the 53 nm to Bahia Conception.