August 7, 2022
Whelp I will admit I had zero hopes of catching any fish and when my step-father asked if I had a smaller cooler I rolled my eyes. But nevertheless looking for a nice day outside I was game for some fishing. Once we got setup and threw our lines out I fell into the typical cast, reel, repeat with no…
December 3, 2019
Crossing time. Oddly the wind was calm from 11:00pm until about 6:00am, we would get some gusts but nothing sustained. The plan was to depart at 8:00am after a big breakfast and that is exactly what we did. Getting out of the protection of the anchorage we were greeted with some 4-6 foot white capped waves just forward of our…
November 13, 2019
What a sunrise! I sat on the saloon roof watching the colors in the sky cycle through before the sun popped up over the horizon. The obsidian hill basking in the glowing light. By 7:00 we decided to make the short hop down to San Juanico, so anchor up and on our way. Jack took the helm so I could…
November 7, 2019
We will not be defeated by injury! After breakfast it was time to show that we can fish and remain injury free. Jack’s now favorite lure (the one that got him yesterday) was repaired and first to hit the water. Right out of the gate I had a fish on the line. A good fight convinced me it was a…
November 6, 2019
Ready, set, hike! Before the sunrise we watched Pura Vida motor off to the north and we headed in to the beach. It was good to see that is was much cleaner than in the spring when we hauled forty pounds of trash to Bahia LA. Much cleaner does not mean clean, so we packed up another tub of garbage…
November 5, 2019
Up before the sun and underway just after 6:00am, we headed for San Francisquito. Visions of stocking the freezer with fish filled out heads and we motorsailed 40 aught miles south. Mellow day on the water with not much wind and calm seas. Only drawback at one point was a 1.3 knot current against us. Thankfully it only lasted an…
May 25, 2019
After a second calm night I was up early and jumped into a kayak to explore the shore. The anchorage has a beach with cliffs and two deep arroyos leading to the base of the hills. I made my way up the first arroyo looking for a spot to slip up the cliff. 500 meters or so I found what…
May 24, 2019
Up early Jack and I dropped the dinghy and headed off fishing. Just as it is supposed to be, it wasn’t long before Jack had his first fish. It was a small cabrilla that we slipped back into the water, a good start. We worked around a point and caught a bigger, but still small, triggerfish. We kept it just…
May 20, 2019
Morning came with a pretty calm start. Enough so that Jack and I took the dinghy for some fishing. Getting out to the edge of the anchorage we found good sized rolling waves which forced Jack to the floor of the dinghy and required an adjustment of plans. We turned around and attempted to troll for fish in a less…
April 27, 2019
Damn it was a spectacular sunrise. The clouds and sun made for a colorful start to our day. From there I paddled into shore to make for long morning hiking the hills, sitting and staring the nature, and exploring new some hiking areas. My excursion stretched over two hours. While I was gone Ariel put in a triathlon of paddleboarding…
April 26, 2019
Ari cooked us a big breakfast omelet to fuel us for the day and afterwards I kayaked in to shore to hike the peak guarding the bay and over another peak I had worked on a rock cairn last year. It was interesting to see how it had grown. Rather than backtrack I carefully made my way down a gully…
April 25, 2019
Before sunrise we were moving, after just raising anchor I was at the helm when I thought I saw some motion, sure enough we were on a collision course with a boat that had zero lights one. What the fuck. Danger avoided we proceeded to have a ridiculously calm passage to Los Gatos where we ended up being joined by…