Light winds & Fiesta

It's been light winds for the past couple days and was nice to take a break and start building up "Club Shed". We took a trip south of Los Barriles, down to El Rincon and found perfect south winds in the mid 20's and amazing blue water.

             Spent some time during the light wind days to build up mi Casa. I originally used
all bamboo for framing and as soon as we layed the palm fronds over the roof the rain clouds
came in and it rained all night! The next morning I come to find the roof had collapsed and
it was back to square one. Needless to say the bamboo was not strong enough for framework so
I found a few steel re-bar pieces and it worked much better. So now the Casa is near its final
stage of completion.

 

        Went spear fishing for my first time and I can't belive how many tropical fish there are!, The sea of cortez is bustling full of life. I've never experienced swimming with tens of thousands of fish all around me. I swam next to a sea turtle and even swam over the top of a full size morey eel that looked like a pissed off pitbull. I didnt get to see any sharks but there are plenty of small reef sharks around.

Over the last weekend was Independence day in mexico.In Los Barriless they closed down part of the main street and had all sorts of street vendors from Mariachi bands, Food and Bars, Gambling and Games and a few "knick Knack" toy booths. Last thing we did was go to see the cock fights and I gotta say I have mixed feeling about watching animals fight to the death for gambling purposes. It will probably be the first and last time I watch cock fighting.
 

Next week the forecast looks solid so it's back to kiteboarding every day!

Ciao,
Matty