I rode our folding bike into the depths of La Paz to play twenty questions with the locals. I find that if I ask twenty questions I can understand the answer to seven, which is enough to get something done.
Oy vey. Paradise is HOT!
We hit that bewitching hour about halfway through May when most of the cruising community finished prepping their boats and left for higher latitudes. It was right around that time that we really started sweating.
East Street
The town of La Paz (translated as The Peace) is, for cruisers like us, just SO easy. Perhaps that is why the majority of live-aboards we met had the same story, “I stopped for a week twelve years ago, and never left.”
Our First Visitors!
Last month we had our very first brave visitors along our journey, my mom and stepdad Gary. We were so excited to share a bit of our new life with our family AND to have some new faces onboard… after all, Jonah and I spend A LOT of one on one time together.
Turning Point
The sun coyly winked on the horizon, daring us to come closer, as our compass needle crept towards east. After a month and a half along the long, thin Baja peninsula we had reached the tip and it was time to turn the corner.
Mexican Jumping Dolphins
We have seen a lot of dolphins on this trip, and we hope to for the rest of our days. We love them. But this one day, when we were a day out from Cabo, we were surrounded and entertained by the most playful display of dolphin shenanigans we’ve ever seen.
Paradise is exciting!
We are about to experience our first hurricane… or tropical storm (fingers crossed)! Yikes! We were not expecting this.
Scorpion Bay
We came into Scorpion Bay and the town San Juanico at two in the morning under the light of a full moon. It was our first time entering an unknown anchorage at night. A bit nerve racking but it worked out.
Eyes Wide Open
The amazing wildlife that Baja is famous for includes the large Eastern population of the North Pacific Grey Whales. They travel down to Mexico to spend the winter months mating, giving birth, and rearing their newborns.
Out in the Blue
For the last month and half we’ve nestled in beautiful bays and in the lee of rugged points along the pacific coast of Baja California and Baja California Sur. And while these destinations were worth the price of admission the journeys themselves merit mention.