Instead, we rented a car in Costa Rica from Alamo and they delivered it to the marina at 7 am. We then had to drive to the border and drop off that car at the Alamo office on the border, walk through immigration, customs, etc and meet the Alamo rep on the Nicaragua side who had a pickup truck waiting for us. It was about 11 am before we finished because we wasted a lot of time talking to customs about us coming back with an anchor we didn't have when we entered.
After driving about 100 miles on mostly pot holed dirt roads, we finally arrived it the little bay. We pulled into a beach side restaurant that had a sign saying they rented boats by the hour. We hired a panga and loaded the generator, air compressor, hose and other dive gear into the boat. The wind was howling, but not quite as bad as the last time we'd been there. Tom was ill, but still spent two hours combing the bottom.
There was no sign of it, so reluctantly we abandoned our search and headed back. Unfortunately, we made a wrong turn and ended up navigating two sections of the road with rivers running across them. We finally asked for directions and got back on track. We made it back to San Juan Del Sur to meet the Alamo rep to take us back to the border. it was after dark, which we'd hoped to be back before losing daylight.
The roads in Costa Rica are much better, so it wasn't quite so bad. It was getting late, bu since we had a car, it only made sense to stop at a supermarket for provisions. At 8 pm we wandered through the Jumbo store like zombies, grabbing what we thought we needed. It was about $160 for not so many groceries: another problem with Costa Rica is how EXPENSIVE everything is!
We finally returned to the marina about 10 pm, exhausted and really bummed out that our day did not yield the return of our anchor. We decided it was time to move on so we got up early and drove to Coco to check out so we wouldn't have to take the boat over and unload the dinghy, etc. We made it back to the marina before the rental car company noticed so we avoided a second day rental charge.