SV Fortuitous: Bahia Honda, Sun., Jan. 18th

Motor sailed to Bahia Honda. It's a bit tricky, here, as it is a fairly deep bay, but shallows up quickly. We motored around a bit and ended up dropping well off shore in 40' of water. Nuage came in later and found 35' closer to shore. We were a bit leery as we'd had 2' under the keel at one point...so we settled for 40.
Shortly after anchoring, Domingo and eventually his entire family, in three different boats, showed up along side to tell us what they had for sale and what they'd bring the next day. In the other boat was Domingo's daughter, Rosalin, son in law Edwin, and daughter Daisy (about 4). They were much more appreciative of the gift bag, but also asked for candy. Apparently, Domingo is bringing his wares tomorrow at 8am...a bit early for a shopping for me! We'll see what they try to sell us and at what price tomorrow. It's all an experience.
Nuage had the same sale's pitch a little later.
Went for a little swim and had burgers for dinner. A pleasant quiet evening here except for the splashes of fish jumping and howler monkeys.
Tomorrow, we're expecting Homers' Odyssey (Stan and Lynn), another Bluewater Cruising Boat, to arrive...more drinking and eating! What more could we ask for?!!!

Domingo in his dugout canoe.
Domingo coming alongside.

Domingo was fine, but I was a little annoyed by his son, Kennedy (now there's a good Latin name!) who came with his daughter trying to sell us fruits. He'd say a price, and I'd say too high...then he'd say, I'm not saying dollars, only counting the fruits! My Spanish is too good for that trick!
As well, I had put together a little gift package for his daughter, Melanie. He and she said thanks, but kept saying how much she liked sweets. She was about 9 years old. I finally relented and gave her candy as well.

Can you believe Domingo is 60...looks much older to us...but then, we must just have a good self image. I still have that papaya...and it's still green!! The cilantro and spinach, as well as the grapefruits, have been great though!

From this fisherman, we bought Pargo (snapper) and he cleaned and fileted it. We also got 3 large lobster...grand total of $7.

This is a BURP or Bluewater Unofficial Rendezvouz Party/Point. We've had a couple of those. Left to right, Ralph, Me, Lynn (steering), Carol, Stan, and Dave.

Domingo took us up the river at the end of the bay. There we visited an indigenous village. Homers' Odyssey, Stan and Lynn, and Carol from Nuage are in the dinghy ahead of us. It was pretty low water in spots.

Unbelievably, we didn't bring anything at all for these kids. On the other hand, we don't have enough on board for all of them anyway! School wasn't in session, or I would have gone back to see it and leave some supplies for the teacher.

Domingo's mother in law lives in this hut.

This would be Domingo and his mother in law...also our age!!

Talk about basic!

What a cutie!

A calabasa. They hollow out the fruit and make bowls.

Fixing up the dugout for the next voyage. First they tarred it, then painted. One can hardly imagine what people do her for entertainment or, just what they do at all, beside work.

After the trip up-river, we headed to the Pueblo on the bay. These were the greeters. There was garbage all over the beach...too bad no photos.

We had to interrupt the bingo game to try to buy stale bread at the store.

Here we are shopping. Many tiendas have a small opening and you just ask for things and hope they have them.

Bingo anyone??

These little girls couldn't take their eyes off me. I'd like to think it's because I'm so attractive, but you can see that's not the case. I think it's because I'm so "white"!