Cruise Log #37, San Carlos Ashore
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Our new place in space
Updated October 27th
#122 Bahía in relation to Marina Real (west) and Guaymas (east).
San Carlos from the west looking out over Marina San Carlos
and the
mooring field in Bahía San Carlos from Tetas de Cabra (photo courtesy
ONIX).
Looking towards the west to
Bahía San Carlos from Bahía San Francisco. Marina Real
is on the back side of
Tetas de Cabra, our new digs are on the righthand edge (photo courtesy
ONIX).
Cedars and bouganvilla stand between the front porch
and the road, buffering traffic noise
and looky-loos.
1100 square foot rental, 2 bdrm, 2 full baths, equipped with bicycle, furnishings,
A/C in every room, gigantic king...
industrial-size washer and dryer (GE)...
and security.
As soon as we signed the lease, we started unloading the boat. He-who-cannot-be-named was
first off. He spent his first day ashore cowering beneath a bed...vewy scawy. A coupla days
ashore, though, and he was galloping from room to room, stretching his legs and enjoying solid
ground.
Besides Himself, everything we own that was stuffed
into SolMate, came off. Where had all of it been hiding?? We lost track of the number of truckloads
ferried - and discovered that a house doesn't hold stuff half as efficiently as a boat.
It's the difference
between square and cubic footage...one heckuva lot had been layered into SolMate's
lockers and lazarettes.
Stan unpacking and searching for storage space.
To solve our land-based storage problem, we created our own cubic footage, thanks to Rubbermaid and the Nakias, who ran to the Nogales WalMart for us - twice. So far we've packed a ton and a half of essentials into nine state-of-the-art cubes, one holds the sewing locker, one the foul weather gear, ropes and bungies are tangled up in another, while electronics and mechanical stuff is spread out in five or six more.
