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Boat Rally to Kino

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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 dancer