JAN. 23, Wednesday, cloudy
It rained overnight. Not much but enough to get everything wet and the road muddy. We got up at 8 a.m. to a sight to behold! The Bay had about 20 dolphins swimming near the shore and they were putting on a show. Gord got his boat out and offered us a ride so we went along. The dolphins were racing with us and the faster we went, the more they liked it. They would come right to the boat, turn sideway and look at us, then jump out of the water and splash us. It was WONDERFUL! We stayed out for about a half hour then came back in. Ron and Louise and Millie were out in the kayaks and we would go towards them so that the dolphins would swim near them.
WHAT A PHENOMENAL WAY TO START THE DAY!!!!!
Later in the day, Val and 7 others went for a walk. I had to go back to town. Got 340 pesos worth of fuel then came back home. I also ordered parts for the truck cover that I broke coming in here. It's free and they will send them to Phoenix. Came back to an empty camp....everyone is still out. Got the closet door fix that had come unhinged from all the jarring and bouncing I guess.
After a great dinner of camaron, rice and fresh broccoli, we went and joined the group for a campfire. Had lots of laugh and even sang some folklore songs. There is a young couple here from Israel and she sings and plays guitar and so does Ronald so it was fun. There were about 9 couples around the fire.
JAN. 24, Thursday,
Cloudy again today and it rained again overnight. Ronald and Louise left today for Loreto and so did Gord, his wife Gwan and Millie as Millie was taking a flight back to Ontario this morning. Gord and his wife will be back tomorrow and Ron and Louise will be back Sunday, maybe.
We went into town as there is not much to do at our site....it's cold and wet. We had lunch there and picked up ice, firewood and beer.
3:30 p.m. and the sun is trying hard to come out. Maybe we have seen the worst of it. Had dinner and read. We had pizza for dinner. A truck came by selling them so we bought one. We were in bed by 9 p.m.
A really weird and wonderful thing happened yesterday. As we were sitting in our palapa reading our book, I started reading the graffiti on the beams and came upon one that said " doe & fred foo, feb 14/04" it also had little Chinese characters. Now there is only one couple we knew who signed like that and that was our friends Doe and Fred who passed away last year. I sent an e-mail with a picture to Doe to confirm. This is just too weird!
JAN. 25, Friday,
Got up at 7 a.m., the sun is out so we decided to go kayaking before breakfast. Went out for about 2 hours than returned. There was a lot of red algae on the Bay and at times it was as thick as soup. We kayaked to an Island we can see from our site than over to three other beach front campsites and slowly made our way back to our site.
We had breakfast and stuck around home for the rest of the day. Everyone else is gone to town. A new couple arrived today and parked beside us. They were apparently here before. It is cloudy with sunny breaks and the day is cooling off as it wears on. Val bought a new carpet from the Mexicans for 700 pesos. She felt in love with the fishes on it, all different colors. We had fresh trigger fish for dinner that we bought from beach vendors. It was delicious. It is a very tasty and tender fish with white meat.
Had happy hours with our new neighbours and 2 other couple came over to join in. Gord and Gwan are back so they also joined in.
We went to bed by 9 p.m. after sitting under our palapa and watched the algae turn the water into a sparkling display of blue color. The shore has a continuous blue line that looks just like those string of miniature lights. It's very beautiful. I have to try to take a picture.
JAN. 26, Saturday
Wash day! Truck, clothes and us. still cloudy but the sun does peak through once in a while.
I am at the internet place so will post this. Plans for the day are to go kayaking this afternoon then dancing tonight at the Bay next to us. Should be fun. Filled the water tank and charged the batteries ( I am borrowing my neighbour's generator) Pretty generous of him but goes to show the camaderie at this site.
Life is but a journey filled with adventures
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