12-12-12
GabbyWray landed in Turtle Bay on
12-12-12 at 12:12 P.M......................BooYaaahhhh!
We made it to Turtle Bay safe and
sound. Not without a few glitches. The first one was about 4 hours
outside of Ensenada, we were fighting our way through kelp patties
like mine fields. One bogged us down so we had to stop and turn off
the boat. Jamin put his swimsuit and goggles on and dove under the
boat to cut off the kelp. As the nervous mom, I counted from the time
he jumped in the water. It took him all of 28 seconds!!!
We had long pounding night shifts. Saw
beautiful stars, (like I've never seen before). When Jordan, Whitney,
and I were on our night shift, we saw in the phosphorescent water, 2
whales come up and through the water. They were beautiful,
surreal............. The dolphins look like green torpedoes in the
water.
We made it to Turtle Bay, anchored and
the fuel guy came to the boat right when we got here. Darrell and
Jake put the dingy into the water and took off over to the island.
They went into town for a few provisions. The rest of us fell asleep
in the calm quiet and rocking of the boat. I woke up a while later,
hearing Jake holler outside the boat. I went out to see Jake circling
around the boat. He couldn't get the dingy to stop. He circled and
came close enough to grab the davit lines and was almost knocked out
of the dingy. I'm sorry, but it was all I could do to not burst into
laughter. He let go and tried again, but this time worked with the
engine, killing it. He was just far enough away he couldn't throw me
the line. The wind had picked up and was blowing against him. So he
kept trying to start the engine. I think it was flooded. He was
drifting with the current and had to start rowing. He got over into a
shallow spot, and with everything he had because of the wind, he dug
the paddles hard into the water. SNAP! The left row, broke halfway up
the paddle when it came into contact with the sand. He finally made
it to shore, where Antonio, (the guy who gave us fuel), came running
down to help him pull it in. Another man had run up to get Darrell.
What started the whole scene, was Darrell needed more money. They
sent Jake with the groceries to the boat, and to get more pesos. But
since he couldn't stop the boat everything went down hill......
Needless to say, Jake felt horrible, (Darrell was good about it),
crap happens..... But from my end, I came down into the boat and
laughed my head off. Sorry Jake I just had to let it out somewhere.
Our friends on the Boat BlackJack,
Johnathan and Hillary came by with Antonio, in a Ponga and picked us
up for dinner. We climbed off the side of the boat and into the
Ponga. It was just getting dark and was beautiful. We landed up on
the beach, but you still have to climb over the boat and land into
about 3 feet of wave. Sooooo glad I bundled up on top, and wore
shorts. We arrived at a place called Annabells. It's owned by Rueben
and Annabell, and their private home where they've made a big dinning
hall for boaters to come for dinners. The meal was meager to say the
least but they were very friendly and sweet. We spent a few hours
visiting with our friends and their Captain, making plans of how and
when we are all taking off. When we left, the waves had picked up
and we met Antonio at the beach, walked down into the wafe, climbed
into the boat and headed out into the pictch black! As we are
bouncing across the waves in the black of the night, once again I
said to myself, (I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M DOING THIS)...... I still have
no idea now he found our boat!
It was wonderful to hit the bed.....
But in the night several times I had to go check on the anchor. One
time I took my flashlight and went out on the bow, and checked the
bridle and anchor and flashed my light over to the tug boat, and a
BIGGER flashlight, came on and was aimed at me, (in my red polka dot
PJ's).....We were fine, but I wasn't looking at the land, just the
boats, and thought for sure we had drifted away from our spot. I woke
Darrell up and he assured me it was OK. The next morning, sure enough
we were exactly where we started. I've got to remember to look at the
land................. Lights out.....
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