Bahia Ballena w/ Lynn & Brad

Photos: Taking Lynnie and Brad surfing in Malpais and Heart´s Bay in Bahia Ballena (#4 & 6), including our trip up the estuary with Brad and Lynnie (#1 & 2). Some very fun days and evenings!

We just walked into the little town of Tambor and found this cute little boutique with computers upstairs. The bay is very pretty, and the beach across from where we have Sidewinder anchored is beautiful, with white sand, palm trees, and clear water. We look forward to meeting the couple who own the land and have been here for thirty years. He is the inventor of the Heart Inverter we have in our boat, and she is a mid-wife and organic gardener who has delivered all the babies in this vicinity and has organized organic farmers all over this area of the peninsula.

We found Lynnie and Brad after waiting with our dinghy for a couple of hours, and it was quite a scene getting our stuff and them out to the boat that afternoon. That morning before they arrived, a really friendly local came out to us in his panga and offered to help us out with whatever we needed, so luckily we had Max available in the late afternoon. By then, though, the tide was going out, and the waves were coming back up. It was quite a scene getting Worm back out through the waves, but we succeeded, and Max brought Lynnie and Brad with all the bags, including three of their own. They were able to leave their rental car with Max´s family, and hopefully it was there when they got back on Tuesday afternoon. Lynnie got seasick shortly after their arrival and was wasted all that night. [Editor's Note: Lynn would like it to be known that she recovered the next day.] There was a storm on the way down to Bahia Samara, and the seas were quite mixed up that next day. We would not have stayed there that night had we not been meeting Lynnie and Brad. The next day was beautiful, and we headed down the coast to look for surf, but it was pretty mixed up and somewhat inaccessible by boat in most places. If the waves had been primo, we would have made the effort to stop. We journeyed all the way down the coast and by the time we got to Malpais, we figured we should continue around the point and up to Bahia Ballena, which was our next destination anyway. We stopped for an hour surf session, and David, Brad, and Lynnie went out. Luckily Brad caught a few waves, and it was a good sunset. Unfortunately there was never enough wind to just sail at a reasonable pace, so we motor-sailed and finally entered Bahia Ballena around 10 P.M. It has been quite a week. We were disappointed not to see Daniel´s friend in Tamarindo because we ran out of time.