It's come to my attention that blogspot reposted a post i made back in 2012 from the ocean off Oahu! Not sure how that happened... i was working on this post and must have clicked on something?? Anyhow... see below for the latest! (and forgive the terrible layout... i haven't figured out that stuff yet)
Hola from La Paz, Mexico, on the Baja Peninsula! Tim and I are at it again, sailing around cruising on Midnight Blue. You can see where we are on this tracking page: https://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/SV_MidnightBlue (note, this tracking should be working by tomorrow).
We left Punta Mita on Friday April 9th, one week after I arrived in Mexico. That first week was a whirlwind, visiting with friends on Easter and having a pizza night (tim had some great helpers for cooking the pizzas).
Our first day out we sailed to Isla Isabella where stayed for 2 nights, hanging out anchored next to some pinnacles covered in blue footed boobies (birds!)... all around that area, we kept passing Olive Ridley turtles on the surface, many of which were accompanied by birds on their backs! Sunday April 11th we set sail for Baja, where we landed at Los Frailes anchorage after about 48 hours... mostly motorsailing, as we had really light winds most of the way.
At Los Frailes we did a hike up to the top of the mountain, to get a view of Pulmo Reef on the other side -- one of the few hard coral reefs in Mexico apparently. It's a national park, so we couldn't bring the boat there (no anchoring) and since we didn't fhave permits we didn't feel good about dinghying around to check it out. In the view shot, our boat is anchored in the middle.
