At 5pm yesterday we dropped the anchor in Shipwreck Bay, San Cristobel. We had had to motor the last couple of days, and in the early hours of the morning yesterday the rain came - and did it come!! Visibility dropped to just above a mile, but thanks to the GPS and radar and our trusty chart we made it in OK.
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We have parked ourselves next to Fifi, and Erica and Kevin came over for a very wet visit and a cup of tea. The first thing you notice is the number of sea lions, they are everywhere including any dinghy that is in the water and on the back steps of Fifi. Fifi is a catamaran and the back steps up the pods make a really nice sea lion perch and he was not to be deterred when Kevin lowered his dinghy. During the visit we heard a grunt, groan, kerplosh as another one made it into Fifi's dinghy.
Our agent braved the rain to come out to us just after the anchor was down, and after a cup of coffee departed with all our papers to fix us up. We are programmed to have a visit at 10am this morning from the Port Captain, Immigration, Customs, the Bug Catcher and the National Park man as well as our agent. Where they are all going to go I have no idea, but we have had the heads up that they will do anything for a can of Coca Cola, so there is a raft in the fridge. It is not so long ago that you could not visit at all, so these formalities are a small price (the real price is not so small!).
So now the sun is trying to get through the clouds and maybe the rain has stopped we will get tidied up and see what we can see.
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