No other way to say it; Concepcion Bay is beautiful! We sailed from Punta Chivato into Concepcion Bay with 12 - 17 knots of wind of the port beam. Gorgeous. Speed readings went to 9 knots where it stayed for a good long time. Gotta love it!
Entering Concepcion requires hanging towards the east side of the bay for 5 or 6 miles. Bill misread the guidebooks, so was favoring the the west side. Once the depth dropped below 12', it was time to recheck the books. Oops ... let's head to port a bit! All good.
Our first anchorage was El Burro cove, about 8 miles in on the west side. Beautiful! Only challenge there was Bill took a major spill while anchoring and lost the use of his left leg for a fair bit of time. Once the hook was set, major medicine was required. Margaritas and Rum & Cokes are great medicine!
We went for a hike the next day up the local mountain, looking at petroglyphs, etc. Nice place. That afternoon, they were predicting a norther and El Burro is not the place to anchor with stronger north winds so we moved to Santispac, north about 3 miles, but still on the west side.
We spent two days there, Diane fishing, clamming, etc. and Bill working on boat projects. Diane managed to "catch" something she didn't intend to; she got stabbed by a sting ray! The pain was amazing. Her description was like a hot knife coming up out of the sand and driving into the bottom of her foot.
Fortunately, very hot water and the rum and coke medicine did the trick.Concepcion is on our "must return" list, where we need to plan on several weeks in that bay. It's that beautiful.
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