Bahia Santa Maria

We left Mag Bay early this morning for the quick trip up to Bahia Santa Maria. This is a better location to start our next passage from. We are currently the only boat in this big bay! Way different from when we were here on our way down!!!! The winds in the anchorage this afternoon have been a consistent 20ish with gusts up to 27! We're expecting another boat in later tonight, some friends who are heading back to Orcas Island then up to Alaska. After checking with all our weather sources,
we are currently THINKING of leaving here tomorrow evening (once the wind dies down) and heading straight to Turtle Bay. We should have southerlies thru the night and then westerly to NW during the day - time to make tracks while the weather is good! Stay tuned to see what we really do!!!

Our current position is: 24 degrees 46.4'N; 112 degrees 15.4'W

Rich, Deb, Kyle & Ryan

Anchored in Magdalena Bay

We arrived here in Mag bay almost exactly 36 hours after leaving Los Cabos yesterday morning. We rounded Cabo Falso with about 30 knots on our nose for about 1.5 hours. After that we had 15-18 knots and choppy seas for the remainder of the day making for slow progress. Overnight the chop died down a bit and we were able to make time. Today we again had 15-18 knots out of the NW but better seas. We were able to hold a good tack right on into Mag Bay. Not more than 5 minutes after we dropped
anchor, a guy was here offering to sell us diesel. You got to love the panga drivers!! We THINK we'll leave here on Sunday and head up to Bahia Santa Maria in preparation for heading farther up the coast.

Our current position is: 24 degrees 38'N; 112 degrees 08'W

Rich, Deb, Kyle & Ryan

Update to Departure

After checking with all our weather sources, we've decided to leave early tomorrow morning for Magdalena Bay. We should arrive there sometime around dinner time on Friday. It's about 180 miles from here to the anchorage in Mag Bay.

New Friends

This is Kent and Maria. We met them at the pool in La Paz a few weeks ago. They live here in Cabo and we've been lucky enough to be able to meet up with them and spend some time with them while we're here. They also have two sons - Mark and Christopher. All the boys have a great time together, as do the adults!

Below are Kyle and Mark - two great buddies!!
Now that we're back on the boat we're getting ready for the "bash" north. As of now, it looks like the best time to leave here is on Friday or Saturday - stay tuned!! We've made the Costco run and the grocery store run. Everything is mostly put away, but there are always more things to do to get ready to leave.

Horseback Ride

During our 5 days of R&R at the Royal Solaris - we took a horseback trip. Kyle has been wanting to go for a while now, and I was able to convince Rich to get back on a horse again....

Misc Pictures

These first three are of "The Hook" on Isla San Francisco. We met up with our friend on "A Cappella" there for a few days and shared some great dinners!

This one is aboard "Maitairoa" in Perico on Isla Carmen. Sue and Alex are sure great people!!
These two boats are who we shared the anchorage in Balandra with when we left La Paz. "Utopia" is well over 200 feet and "Atessa" is not quite as big, but she does carry a helicopter!

Oasis is in Los Cabos

Well we finally made to Los Cabos yesterday. We left Frailes around 7:30 and the wind was pretty calm - about an hour later somebody turned on the wind switch. As we finally approached Los Cabos, we had 20-25 on the nose again. It took us 8.5 hours to go about 30 miles!! I guess that was practice for the bash North from here... We will be here until around the 25th of the month. We're getting off the boat on Monday for a few days of R&R at an all inclusive place in the area. We're cleaning up and drying up from yesterday today, so I'll add some more pictures tomorrow...

Stuck in Los Frailes

Well we've heard of people being stuck in Los Frailes waiting for a norther to blow through, but we're stuck waiting for the south winds to ease up. We left Balandra Monday morning and headed for Los Muertos. Our night in Balandra was anything but quiet! This was the first night we had to do an anchor watch. We had winds gusting 25-35; so we kept checking ourselves to make sure we didn't move anywhere. Monday night was a quiet night in Muertos. Yesterday we had southerlies on our nose gusting
20-25, so we ducked into the northern anchorage in Los Frailes. We tried to head to Cabo this morning but again we had 25+ knots on the nose and were making little headway. We turned around and came back to Frailes - we'll try again tomorrow...

Our current position is: 23 degrees 24.67'N; 109 degrees 25.37'W

Rich, Deb, Kyle & Ryan

Out of La Paz - Finally

We finally got out of La Paz today. We are currently anchored in Balandra Cove, just outside of La Paz. We got all our exhaust hose repairs done the other day and set out yesterday for Los Muertos. Just about 5 minutes out, Rich checked on all the repairs and told me to turn around. Apparently the muffler thingy also needed to be fixed. We contacted the mechanic on the way back in and also got a hold of Marina Costa Baja. The marina set us up in a slip that we could have had for over a week
and the mechanic (Dan) went and got some epoxy to fix the crack in the muffler attach point. After setting for the night, Rich re-installed it today and all was good so we got the heck out of La Paz. We will got to Los Muertos tomorrow (in time for dinner at the Giggling Marlin), to Frailes on Tuesday and into San Jose del Cabo on Wednesday. We're actually getting anxious for the "bash" north. We've been meeting a bunch of boats that are doing the bash at the same time, so it will be interesting
to see how the weather all plays out for all of us. We are also lamenting the fact that we are heading north. We all agree that we will definitely do this again sometime later. It just really seems that you need to have resources available to do 1,3 or more years of cruising - 2 years doesn't get you much further than we've already been. We can't say enough about the folks that run Marina Costa Baja. Both times we've been there, they have been more than accommodating with getting us hooked up
with anything we've needed. We will surely re-visit them in the future! We're guessing we should be back in SD around the middle of July. Any of you on your boats, we'll be checking in on the local nets as we head up the coast. Our anticipated date of departure from Cabo is around 6/25. We'll send more messages out once we have a good internet connection in Cabo.

Our Current Position Is: 24 degrees 19.28'N; 110 degrees 19.84'W.

Rich, Deb, Kyle & Ryan

PS - Carolyn - the boys are having an alien making day today!!!

Pictures from Los Gatos

These are some of the pictures we took during our stay in Los Gatos. As always, double click on the pictures to see them better. Oasis at anchor.
Ah, fresh lobster!!
Looking North from the beach.
Looking south from the beach..
Overlooking the beach and anchorage from up on a hill..

Cruisers Tree in San Juanico

Here are some pictures of the cruisers tree/shrine in San Juanico. Rich worked hard to sescure our item in the tree so that it makes in thru any upcoming hurricaines...

We are currently in La Paz. We'll be here until Friday or Thursday getting some exhuast hoses replaced. Boy is it HOT here - 103 in the shade!!!