February 24,
2014 – February 25, 2014
We actually
ended up leaving at 2:45 p.m. We were
sitting in the cockpit and a couple of “glass bottom” boats kept coming up next
to us, I mean almost touching our boat, filled with people. It was strange. Some people jumped out of the glass bottom
boat to do some snorkeling. There was a
guide on board and as he came near our boat and he told us that our anchor was
getting close to the reef (which is why they were coming around the boat – duh!). I actually heard the anchor dragging and had
just gone up on deck to tell Daniel when the guide did the same thing so since
we had to leave by 3:00 anyway, we just went ahead and pulled up anchor and
left.
Knowing that
the seas were not going to be too favorable, Daniel took off slow from our
anchorage spot. We motored the rest of
the afternoon, the night and all through the night to arrive at Escondido. On the way we saw a whale! That woke us up – really neat to see a
whale. We also went by Cabarete which is
supposed to be the best wind surfing beach in the world and it must be so
because we saw about 25-30 windsurfers out trying the wind and waves.
Escondido is a
small cutout in the extreme rock walls and mountains, like a little cove. We pulled in here at about 11 a.m. on
February 25th. It is
gorgeous! The mountains and steep rocks
are all around us, there is beach, I’m calling Carla’s beach, because no one
else is on there and no one else is around.
It has lovely rock formations, caves even, right next to and as part of
the beach. This place is beautiful. We will be here until the wind dies down
again, until probably about midnight or a little later, and then we are headed
towards Samana.
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