Bahia Ballena!!

We pulled up anchor in Bahia Potrero around 12pm to head 101 miles towards Bahia Ballena which took us about 20 hours.  We did hit a couple of little squalls of rain an a little lightening but nothing to bad.  We pulled into Bahia Ballena with 15 knot winds and some hard rain around 9:30am on Monday May 30th.  This was a large protected bay with a fisherman's pier and some concrete stairs that you can tie your dinghy up to.  Some said that if you put out a dinghy stern anchor it will help from having the dingy hit the concrete, but we just made sure that we did not tie up during an incoming tide. 

Anchorage

This is empty now, except for Saturdays when they have produce

The small little village

Jerry tying the dinghy up to the concrete pier

SV Windfall, SV Sunny Side Up and SV SOMF took a dinghy tour of an esturary.  The river went off in many different finger and was a great place to spot wildlife.

Bats inside an abandoned house

there were two abandon houses on the side of the river

another small fishing village

lots of Howler Monkeys up in the trees

Skeeter wanted to know how to get up there and get those monkeys

We all went swimming, there was a strong current running in the river

It started to rain hard...your getting wet Jerry!!