Skip to main content

Baja Anchorages................

Central Baja is our favorite cruising area in
Mexico. We were lucky enough to
have many anchorages to ourselves this season!

Candeleros Chico:




Pyramid Cove, Isla Danzante:


There were LOTS of pelicans diving on the HUGE
sardine "bait ball".  
 
The local fishermen were also after the sardines.....
their survival rate must be pretty small.


Punta Colorada, Isla Carmen:
We were anchored here with our friend, Steve,
on Pacific. A resident pod of dolphins came by
in the mornings.



A Big-Horn Sheep (There is a heard on Isla Carmen)




Bahia Marquer, Isla Carmen:


San Juanico:
We were alone for one day.


San Juanico now has rules, the beginning of a fence, and
garbage cans!!??!!
We hiked over the hill to La Ramada anchorage on the other side of
the point. 
It was empty .......... so we took a dip (skinny:)



The farm up the road didn't have much in the way of produce,
but they did have excellent goat cheese and basil.
After our day alone we were joined by two other mono-hull boats
 and then the multi-hull rally decended upon us - 14 boats! 
They were a fun and friendly group.
We joined them on the beach for a
hot dog/potluck dinner.
From San Juanico we headed north to Bahia Concepción.
This is Bahia Santo Domingo at the southern end of the entrance
to Bahia Concepción.
Loomba-Loomba anchored at Posada Concepción


Looking south toward the Posada Concepción community 

We had a few meals at Armando's on the beach at Playa Santispac

Our friends from Kashmira who we met in Long Beach on our
way to Mexico eight years ago. It was great to catch up with them.
When the prediction was for strong southerlies we moved down to
Playa Santa Barbara
Nice water temp......86.2

and nice sunsets... 

Heading back out to Santo Domingo to wait
for a good weather window to cross over to San Carlos


Grilled arracherra and vegetables and our last bottle of wine....
a perfect end to the season.

Sunset at Santo Domingo
Loomba-Loomba along with two other boats waiting to cross
the Sea of Cortez to San Carlos.







Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Mexico Ferry Travel: Getting from Guaymas to Baja and Back

Since our car was in Puerto Escondido in Baja and we and Loomba-Loomba were in San Carlos on the mainland, we decided to make an adventure out of getting the car over to the mainland and do a Copper Canyon trip on the way back to Guaymas. This involved two different ferry trips, a bus, lots of driving, and a train. Ferry travel is not cheap or easy in Mexico.  We arrived at the 8PM ferry  (Guaymas – Santa Rosalia) on Saturday May 27 th at 6PM, as required.  There had been some pretty strong northerlies for a few days and the ferry isn’t very big so we asked if it was definitely going to sail. They said yes so our friend, Ray, who had given us a ride from San Carlos, left.  At 7:45 they decided the weather was too bad to go – next ferry would be Monday (maybe). We took a taxi back to the boat and decided to wait until Tuesday the 29 th . This time we had Ray ( who speaks fluent Spanish) call and make a reservation in a cabin for us for Tuesday.  We arrived at 6PM. They ha
1 comment
Read more

North to Vancouver Island..........

 ........this time on our van aboard the Coho Ferry to Victoria. It was a really fun week visiting old cruising friends and for Jim to see old haunts from his time living in Victoria (many years ago). The Coho ferry leaves Port Angeles on the Olympic Peninsula and arrives in downtown Victoria in one and a half hours: We drove up the west side of Vancouver Island then cut across to a wonderful Provincial C ampground on Gordon Bay on a beautiful lake. The Provincial Campgrounds are big and very well maintained. From Gordon Bay Campground we headed to Nanaimo to hook up with Bob and Gisele Coffey (s/v Relax) where we spent the night. We did a lot of catching up, took a couple of walks around the ponds surrounding their neighborhood and then headed up to another BIG and Beautiful Provincial Park:Rathtrevor Provincial Park about one hour north of Nanaimo. We spent two nights "buddy vanning". . From there we drove (along with Coffeys) down to Shawnigan Lake to visit Ian and Diane (
Post a Comment
Read more

Two Fall Road Trips 2023

The first trip was doing the Selkirk Loop. We headed first to eastern Washington, then northern Idaho, then British Columbia. We highly recommend. Crossing the Columbia                                                                                                    Priest Lake, Idaho                                                                                                   The FREE ferry across Kootenay Lake We headed to Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park. It was beautiful, nice hikes, good place to ride our bikes and the added bonus was that the Kokanee salmon were swimming up river to spawn.  View of the lake The visitor's center in the park was wonderful and we learned a lot about the fresh water salmon. From there we headed to Nelson, BC. and then Beaver Creek Provincial Park The next morning we headed west with a stop  in Metaline Falls where we had a great             breakfast at "The Farmhouse".                  We stopped in Colville for fuel and to stock u
Post a Comment
Read more