We moved north up to Caleta San Juanico today mainly because we have been soaking up so much battery power trying to run the AC fridge and squeeze out a degree or two of coolness out of it that our batteries are dead. So instead of running them all day at anchor we just run a couple of hours north to the next beautiful anchorage.
This huge bay is empty and we had the run of the beach today. Lowe promptly gave himself a dead puffer fish needle shot to the bottom of the foot. He’s been having a rough run lately—a few days ago he shoved a nice long sliver into his foot that required all of my strength to remove. The boy was not thrilled about the tweezers coming out and put up one hell of a fight. We got it out though and it was pretty funny to watch him go from blood curdling screaming to happy calm the second he put his weight on his foot again.
We also found this big turtle shell prominently laid up on a sand embankment overlooking the beach. It reminded me of the guy hanging by a noose in the town square to warn off any other ne’er-do-well in the old Western movies.
2 Comments on “San Juanico”
Hi Patrick,
I feel your pain with the fridge. We had the same problem on our trip across the med last ear from Spain to Jordan in summer. In the end we bought a small bar fridge for less than it cost to get a fridge mechanic for two hours and ran the geny twice a day which worked. I gather you’re not close to a big city which is a pain. I tried one of those battery powered car fridges which drained the boat batteries and died an early death and was useless in +35 deg C heat. If I did it again, i’d have a little honda generator and a tiny freezer, so I could make ice for the cool boxes.
No doubt you’ve though of all this anyhow but, my pennies worth.
Despite almost rebuilding my mates boat on that delivery the endless hours pulling apart bilge pumps, hoses impellers, fridges, toilets,the inoperative autopilot for 2000 miles, and countless other crap, I look back now on what was an amazing experience. I’d do it again in a heartbeat! Keep at it, even just to make us envious! Cheers Bob
Hi beautiful family,
Did you know that a honey compress can draw out poisons from a puncture wound? Maybe put it on the area at night. Smear lots of honey on a bandage and put a plastic bag over to collect drips. But some honey that is sold is diluted with syrup so choose wisely.
Best of luck,
Arlie