December 22, 2025
We headed back north to Juncalito. With the anchor set, Jack and Teresa rushed to beat the sunset for a snorkel. I began cleaning up for Jean’s arrival tomorrow and then jump into making dinner. On their return, they shared that it was again a hugely successful snorkel with cool caves and lots of fish. I was very happy that…
December 4, 2025
The weather forecast has been flip flopping each morning and evening, one good for sticking around in the Baja longer and the other saying “Leave Now!” Ultimately, the need to get to Mazatalan before the 13th dictated leaving today. Not wanting to short Jean and Vicki of more time exploring Agua Verde, we headed off to hike the petroglyphs fairly…
November 22, 2025
It was a slight beat to Loreto with wind from the west but it wasn’t bad and a few hours later we dropped anchor next to a fellow Seawind 1160 Cayu who clearly were not having the best day ever. Their screecher was in shreds and they couldn’t get their main sail all the way down. We offered help but…
November 21, 2025
It was a motor back down to Agua Verde, the wind has just been non-existent lately – no complaints given it could be blowing 30 knots from the north. Anchor set, I had work to do so everyone else piled into the dinghy to snorkel the pinnacle. On their return I heard stories of giant eels and an octopus so…
November 20, 2025
Whew what an exhausting few days in Puerto Escondido – cleaning the boat from top to bottom, laundry was done, provisioning in Loreto, and most important – picking up Jack’s wife, Teresa. Oh and a lunch attempt at El Rays (closed, blerg) and getting the diesel/gas jerry cans refilled. I was plum tuckered out both days so thankfully we enjoyed…
November 18, 2025
Wind on our nose and no fish biting our lines was the theme for the trip to Candeleros Chico. On the way I pulled up the weather and was disappointed to see wind gust up to 25 knots overnight from the west. Figuring the anchorage would be a no go, we still pulled in to take a look and quickly…
November 17, 2025
Ah the easy life, we enjoyed daily margarita’s at the new restaurant on the beach. Which also gave us a chance to meet a few of the other cruisers in the bay plus a couple who just bought a fixer upper boat in La Paz but were land traveling at the moment. Throw in a snorkel on the pinnacle rock…
November 14, 2025
We pulled into the anchorage to find a group of campers on the beach where I like to anchor. No worries we moved down the beach a bit to give them some space. It wasn’t long before we jumped in the dinghy to snorkel around the southern point where I had spearfished with Victor a few years ago. The spot…
November 12, 2025
We were on our way to Isla San Francisco and as seems to always be the case, light winds on the nose meant we would be motoring. The anchor dropped a few hours later in amongst a crowd of charter boats and a few large power boats. This is such a beautiful spot, it is no surprise that it was…
November 10, 2025
Another early day to beat the daily winds that funnel through Cerralvo Channel. A small trawler followed behind us out of the anchorage and an hour later blew on past. We tried our hand at sailing, which failed. After accepted our fate, it was a motorsail up to Balandra. Jack, had visited a few years ago and loved this spot.…
November 9, 2025
5:15pm the anchor was secure and we were on our way to Muertos – a sixty mile hop. To avoid the daily winds and associated waves we decided on a night passage and with the winds declining we had an easy passage with just a bit of wave action first few hours. At 1:30am we were off to bed with…
November 8, 2025
With a 4:30pm departure we left in calm conditions and other than large fishing boats returning and rolling us around it was a mellow ease into the passage. The chicken we picked up was devoured and shortly thereafter Vicki and Jack headed down to rest. I enjoyed the nice conditions (the reason we are doing a night passage is to…