I think I told you the El Cid story. We had just arrived in the El Cid Marina near Isla Mujeres. At 10pm 4 Mexican Marines came to the boat with guns, dogs and electronic devices to board us. The reason was that 3 US boats had just arrived from Columbia. We arrived from Belize and they tried to put the 2 together thinking we were transferring drugs. They boarded us and spent more than an hour going through garbage and lockers with this Ion detector thingy and the drug smelling German Sheapard. After filling out forms and convincing them that we weren't drug transporters the left.

I remember that Rey had gone to sleep early as we had just arrived after a 3 day passage. I told her to get up and she said NO, let me sleep. I suggested that she did as there were Marines with guns that wanted to board us. She jumped up immediately. I probably would have been so nervous I would have been suspicious if I still had the shotgun.

Yes, that was a good easy to get to hiding place.