March 01, 2001 -- San Salvadore Bound

March 1, 2001 -- San Salvadore Bound We left the anchorage at Conception at 1145 GMT following Puffin, Wyvern, Orca and Aphrodite. Orca and Aphrodite went the southern route while Puffin, Wyvern, and we took the northern route. While underway, it occurred to us that we should have taken the southern route as well since that would have put us in a better position to deal with the northerly swell that we discovered. Other than the swell, the trip was quiet. We only saw 3 flying fish! As we approached San Salvadore, we could see the deep water boundry was less than 300 yards from shore, and we were amazed. Sure enough, we were very close in before we had depth readings, and then it went from no reading (greater then 600 feet) to less than 100 feet in the space of about 50 feet! We anchored in 20 feet of water, that when we swung, dropped to 9 feet! That evening, we invited everyone over for cocktails on our boat. It was a great evening.