Starfish Beach, July 1

N09deg.24.20 W082deg.19.52
The anchorage here at Punta Rancho is called Starfish Beach because of all the starfish found in about 1-2 ft. of water before the dropoff. We took a walk along the beach and found 3 bamboo cages--strongly built....eventually got the truth....they're filming a segment of the MTV 'Island' series of 'reality games'. We saw the camera crew get dropped of by boat, but left before the 'players' arrived because we had a boat bottom to scrub, bread to bake in the oven, and food to prepare before we had some new friends (mv Limerick, a Nordhaven 40)come over for sundowners. What an experience to scrape the algae and barnacles off the hull with all the fish swarming around to feed on the scrapings...and the toxic red bottom paint! Tomorrow Michael will put on scuba gear to get the propeller and rudder joints. Clear water... beautiful shoreline...a nice view of the layered mountain range. We can hear the howler monkeys around sunrise and sunset...the parrots high pitch squawking as they fly in pairs. It makes us want to stay more than one night!