We actually did not get around to leaving Nicarauga until about 2pm which pushed our arrival time in Sana Elana to after sunset. We had to sneak in anyhow because we had not made the manditory clearance of Port Captains and immigration for Costa Rica yet. The nearest place to do this was well over a day sail away.
We had lovely motor sail because the gib was still out of commission. It was too windy to put up our new sail in Nicaragua so we motored with the main up instead. We saw a lot of rays jumping and a sperm whale breaching ( Pete’s Rock performance) which was amazing. We arrived after dark….really dark, the only company in the bay was 2 small fishing pangas. (Remarkable - they had anchor lights)
The anchorage was lovely, much like our nice little BC cove anchorage’s. We would later find out that these spots are rare in Costa Rica. The mangroves were loaded with macaw parrots and howler monkeys. Pete commented that they sounded like they were advertising Botox as they squawked. We tried to fish but only caught puffer fish, actually a lot of pufferfish. They are pretty stupid fish that are in abundance because they are poisonous for the majority of population when eaten. I Japan they have perfected a non fatal way to serve.
We went for a great snorkel and dive off the rocks at the entrance. It was pretty windy stirring up the seas effecting the visibility a little. We anchored the boat agaist the the high rocks which provided us some lea and sheltered us close to shore.
We did not find any paper nautilus shells which were reported to be in abundance on the shores.
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