Days 5 and 6- Gonzaga Bay
After a great dinner and good night's sleep... I woke up to see exactly where I was. Wow...
In contrast to the tidal flats of San Felipe, Gonzaga is full of rocky tide pools to explore. All of them are full of hermit crabs, starfish, and sea slugs. This guy was grouchy:
This was the only time on the entire trip that we were somewhere COMPLETELY silent. I only heard the pangas go out at around 0500 and come back around 2000. Someone said they got into a school of tuna somewhere off of one the islands in Gonzaga Bay.
I was more interested in some chorizo eggs to get my day started though.
The family that runs this campground and community are some great people... they will open the kitchen for you whenever you like and make some of the best homemade food we had the entire time. I didn't cook once while we were there... the food was too good.
I had to stay there for 2 days in order to make some trailer repairs on the beach... hmmmm.... doesn't look so good.... one hub got replaced and several broken bolts and brackets got repaired. An Icelandic couple (travelling with their 10 dogs!) who shared the beach with us saved the day when they let me use their generator to run a sawzall and electric drill. One of the residents of Papa Fernandez also offered his power tools and welder if needed... people here are some of the most generous I've met.
FYI: the threads that make up duct tape work wonderfully as loctite!
The trailer got fixed... time to kick back...
My dinner on the second night...
...and this is Foxie... the friendliest of the Icelandic Dogs she came to visit us a lot...
Time to get some sleep and hit the road!!