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<\/a>We were still worried about the wind and the way that the forecast didn’t seem to match up. \u00a0My friends were particularly skeptical since they had paddled down to Notr\u00ed the day before and hadn’t seen the predicted improvement then either. \u00a0We launched from our lunch stop with the idea that we would head for port unless unless things looked better. \u00a0They did; so we paddled lazily north for a while, looked toward Puerto Escondido, and then headed south.<\/p>\nConditions seemed pretty manageable until we got past the south end of Danzante, but soon we had to admit that we were dealing with waves coming from two different directions behind us, and wind from another. \u00a0In their attempts to remain upright, our craft chose three different courses toward the peninsula; but after about 45 minutes of toil we met up again and rounded the point at the north end of the little bay (about as far left as you can see on the distant shore in the picture above). \u00a0 There was some discussion about how glad we were to have made this trip. \u00a0Susan and Travis had gotten a pretty good look at the promised dolphins when we first approached the island; \u00a0Leif had been lagging behind, and I even more so.<\/p>\n
I think that in the future we may wait for a longer window of supposedly good weather before setting out across open water. \u00a0Also, the tour groups are religious about getting to their destinations before one o’clock; and while we may not agree with all tenets of their faith, well, those guys were probably a lot happier hiking than we were paddling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Leif and Susan and I, and their son Travis, paddled and\/or pedaled to Danzante today, after a leisurely start from Ensenada Blanca. Leif claimed that the local dolphins have been seen cruising down the west side of the island regularly … Continue reading