Bahia de Santiago

On the way to Santiago Bay we encountered a red tide,a jelly fish bloom and my favourite, a pod of dolphins. There were probably 100-150 Dolphins jumping out of the water headed north. We were aimed at a smaller pod and they caught our bow wave for a free ride. By the time Justin came up with the camera they had already returned to their pod headed north.



Our attitude for these sightings is to enjoy the moment because its usually short lived and we are not professional photographers and any pictures we take will probably not turn out anyways.

All along our cruise south along the coast we are trying to better understand the boat. The number 1 concern is energy consumption. For the past week Justin has using his maths skills to work out how many Amps our solar panels, wind vane and alternator put into our batteries. He took it on himself the otherday to clean the battery connections and to measure voltage acrosss different connection in the boat with the multimeter. Its been at least 6 years for Justin and close to 8 years for me since we both used Ohms Law and calculated resistance or voltage across a circuit. Its the first time I have had to usethese skills since finishing physics in CEGEP. At the time I remember telling my physics teacher that since I wanted to go into biology these skills would never serve me again. Well I have been proven wrong....if you own a boat then you will need to use them again.



After 2 days we left Santiago for a short motor to Bahia de Manzanillo and anchored directly outside the Las Hadas Hotel. On our way out of Bahia de Santiago we saw the red tied. It seems the red tied will arrive and depart without much notice and doesnt ever really last long. This part of the bay looks as though we are in Greece with its white buildings stacked up. We dinghied into the marina and had lunch by the pool. Today we do a little provisioning and maybe we will leave tomorrow back north.....but who knows. As everyone says here "plans are written in the sand at low tide".