Boat Rally to Kino

We signed up to go on a boat rally from San Carlos north to Kino, about 80 miles by boat. 8 boats signed up and only 3 of us arrived in Kino due to fog, rough seas, seasickness, and poor weather predictions.
We stopped at a cove about 1/3 of the way there on the first night
and had a pot luck dinner with the other 2 boats.
There were these 4" diameter jelly fish swimming in the water.
We arrived the second day in Kino to even rougher seas.
A panga took us from our boats to land where a celebration was held in our honor for making this trek.
We had to climb this ladder to the pier to get on land (and then climb back down in in the dark to return to our boats - yikes!).
Local dignitaries were there and we were treated like royalty with chairs set out only for us.
They insisted that our photograph was taken with them.
We were presented with ironwood sailboat carvings to commemorate our trip
and a dance show was put on for us by the locals.
This last one was very funny with the dancers acting like old men at first
and then going into a hip hop dance where Shelly was given a lap dance by one of the dancers.
We were unsure if we had enough gas to make it back home so we arranged for the panga that took us back to our boats to also deliver diesel fuel to our boat.
This night we had to relocate at 1:30 am due to the waves being so high that we were unable to sleep due to all the bouncing around.

The trip home was over much calmer seas and we were able to spot this Osprey nest with babies in it.

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