3000 Miles to Paradise

After 4 months in the Sea of Cortez, we find ourselves in Cabo, the departure point for the Marquesas. With gentle sounds of bass sub when we sleep to the refreshing humming of jet skis and cruise ship horns when we wake, Cabo isn't exactly the tranquillo Baja we have come to love. Never the less our short sail down from La Paz, with whales breaching and rays flying, put a nice end to our time here. Now cleared from the country we head south into the trades for a short 3000 miles! Thanks to everyone who helped us get the boat ready for the crossing in La Paz, from our parents and radio experts back home to the cruising community here in Mexico. Our boat is full of food and supplies and ready once more for the open ocean. We will be keeping in contact via our SSB radio with family and weather experts on shore and cruisers making the crossing.

Peace out Mexico, thanks for your hospitality!

Look for our next post from the Marquesas!

New Photos up!

Click on "Winter in the sea of Cortez" for a slideshow of photos in chronological order from Dec. to March.

3rd Mate

After a short trip throughout the islands north of La Paz and a visit from the lovely gal Romy, the boys found themselves back in La Paz, and missing something. That something came in the form of the their third partner in crime, Cory. Accompanied by best friend Graham they flew down and met up with the boys in the city of peace. After gathering grub and beverages, they set out to explore more of the inland coast. After exploring such places as the islands of Espertos del Santos and San Francisco/ San Jose and bays Everisto, Agua Verde and Bahia los Gatos they found themselves in Loreto, the oldest town on the Baja. This was the end of Grahams visit, we said our fair wells and heading back south to La Paz with wind on our backs flying the kite the whole way.

Coming into La Paz we found ourselves with four dorados on the lines and managed to see a whale shark! We are currently figuring out our SSB radio system and set-up as well as doing any last minute work on the boat before our short trip to the south pacific. More pictures up soon!

La Paz!

We left for Los Frailles early christmas morning, humpbacks breaching around us.. then a huge christmas dorado! We had a fantastic feast at anchor that evening. We hung out in Los Frailles for 2 more days, just swimming, snorkeling and relaxing on the beach... playing incredible games of Farkle (the dice-rolling, risk-taking game). We bought enough food for 5 people for 6 days, 100 beer and 3 litres of tequila for about $200 US in cabo. We spent a night in Ensenada de Los Muertos, where it rained (the first me and mike had seen in almost a month) but left early in the morning as we wanted to get to La Paz to meet up with Chris' family. We dug out the fenders and dock lines and are currently tied up at marina de La Paz. Theres showers, laundry, wireless, the works here. La Paz itself is cool, relaxed and authentically Mexican, with a huge amount of cruisers both anchored up and at the multiple marinas. The weather forecast looks great, and Brian, Marie and Taleah are here and having us for new years dinner, which is going to be awesome!

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We've made it to Cabo, lost Bob and gained Chris, Justin and Bea. Mag Bay was wonderful, lots of exploring, finally got to swim! Had a good trip into San Carlos with Norm, a very helpful Canadian living there and managing the budding commercial shellfish industry. Good wind and hot weather down to Cabo... arrived in the evening to buzzing jet skis, cruise ships, mega resorts and blasting music.. slight change from mag bay. A bit of a zoo but the weather was great, now that we've got everyone we're heading to Los Frailles christmas morning. Its a very relaxing, almost deserted anchorage 40 miles away, which me and Mike already checked out last week. From there we'll head to Bahia de Los Muertos for a few days and then to La Paz. Great to have everyone aboard and get the heck out of Cabo! Merry Christmas!

Finally cleared in, heading to Mag bay

Since the last post, we made it to within sight of the breakwater at Ensenada, where the engine quit and wouldn't fire back up. We decided to turn around and sail back to San Diego in 0-8 knots of wind, rather than try to deal with a blown injector tip in Mexico. We made it back in a day and managed to get everything fixed with huge credit to Darryl, Rob and Kim Cross for helping with the engine and driving us all over town for a week! We finally left on Thursday and arrived and cleared in to Ensenada yesterday. We spent last night at Baja Naval marina and today we're setting sail for Magdelena bay!(actually). From there we'll head to Cabo where Bob flies home and we meet up with Chris, Justin and Bea. Should be an easy 700 miles!