21 30.9 N 105 14.6 W
This morning we left for San Blas on the mainland. Two whales swam alongside to say goodbye. We have always enjoyed watching the whales and for the first time motored away from them - after hearing the sad story about the yacht that was sunk by a whale in 7 minutes during the Baja Ha Ha Rally we didn't feel as safe as we used to.
Delphis is the yacht anchored next to us in Mantanchen Bay, San Blas. Whilst listening to the VHF radio we heard Delphis saying his boat had approximately 2 - 3000 honey bees looking to make a hive on his radar. Officials offered to bring a party to his boat to spray the boat and kill the bees. Having been a bee keeper in the past the owner of Delphis was totally against killing the bees and was happy for them to stay around until they decided his boat was not suitable for a home and move off. The shore party suggested he pretend his anchor was faulty and raft up next to another boat, hoping the bees would jump ship. Don and I were fascinated and immediately went up into the cockpit to look at the bees through the binoculars. Don was horrified at the volume of bees and I was reluctant to tell him to check out his own radar - sure enough - bees !!! We immediately closed up the boat - and are now sweltering in humid heat with all hatches closed and the cockpit shut tight. Our dinghy is covered in bees so no trip ashore for us today. A few minutes later Delphis was back on the radio reporting that the bees were slowly leaving - probably gone back to the land - hummm !!! There are lots of jokes going around about how many jars of honey others want.
We plan to spend a few days here to explore and to catch up on some boat jobs - the list is growing again !
So we will cover our explorations in the next post.
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