Heading North

Feb 1 -5, 2012
Wow..no blog for almost a week.  What can I say?  Busy.
We had a great time in Barra but yesterday we were more than ready to head back to Tenacatita.  The lagoon is beautful but it is a lagoon.  This year for some unknown reason there were many dead fish which did not add to the ambience.
So what did we do last week?  We made a trip to Melaque and found some great hardware stores..important for boat people to know.  The Sands Hotel welcomes boaters.  You can tie up at the Sands and use their facilities.  On Sat night they have a ribs night.  The food was pleasant but I must say  that Lynda and Mike's rib dinner (on their trawler) was infinitely better!
Now we are back in Tenacatita and content to be here.  The water is lovely so on those hot afternoons (every pm now) we can swim in clean water.   Our trip here yesterday was good but the swells were quite large.  Of course the wind came when we were about 20 min from anchoring...no sailing.
After we arrived, I made breakfast and went for a nap.  For some reason I was awake at 4 am and never got back to sleep....anxiety or who knows?  The 2 hr nap restored me.  We stayed on the boat except for taking Patches in to the dog beach.  We were all happy to be on the clean sand again.  Patches had a good run and we were not covered in sticky black mud (Lagoons are like that.).
Last night we sat in the cockpit enjoying the evening.  There were no mosquitoes to speak of which added to the enjoyment.  And the moon over the bay ...full or almost full moon made for one of those skies that cause people to wax poetic.  There was a bit more rocking compared to Barra but not enough to cause a problem.
Patches has a new nemesis.  It may be that he is just developing into a 'crabby old dog'.   The bay is now replete with pelicans. ( As an aside pelicans can be beautiful.  The ones we are seeing have a white head with a  burgundy neck and grey body.  Perfect colour scheme.)   Patches is unnerved by the pelicans diving around the boat, and one splashed him yesterday.  I was below and heard Patches skidding along the deck..I waited for his splash when he hit the water, but he managed to stop before going overboard. 
This afternoon we will dinghy in for a late lunch.  The surf is up here so who knows what surprises our landing will hand us.  Apparently some boaters made a bad landing yesterday and of course there was an audience.  Never fails.
More on our landing at a later date.