La Paz: Winter 2019/2020

La Paz is a pretty special place.

Although we would prefer to be at anchor farther south this time of year where the water and air are both in the 80's, we have thoroughly enjoyed our time here so far. We were able to get in on some of the Christmas festivities before we headed home for Christmas.

The beginning of the Christmas decorations along the malecón.
It was amazing when it was all done and dark.

The lighted boat parade.

Cars and trucks were decorated.

Even the cow outside of our favorite grocery store was dressed in it's Christmas cape.

After Christmas we returned with terrible colds......no problema...

a visit to a Consulto Medico and a Farmacia and we were

on our way to recovery:

We are staying busy while we are waiting for the right person to

come along to buy Loomba-Loomba.

The new malecón and bike paths are amazing. Most days we ride the

six mile roundtrip from Marina Palmira toward Marina de La Paz doing

errands along the way. Here are a few of the sculptures along malecón:

Jacques Cousteau

We've also started taking some low key golf lessons from

a fellow cruiser. We ride our bikes to the water taxi by Marina de La Paz and head across the bay to a golf community where there is a pitch and putt. They supply clubs and balls and the 9 hole pitch and putt course for 100 Pesos and the lessons are free!

Water Taxi heading across the bay to the golf course.

Driving the golf cart from the water taxi to the golf course:

Our friends on svTortuga are in the golf cart ahead of us.....

We've had some exceptional sunsets while we have been in the marina:

La Paz also has many excellent restaurants, taquerias, and street food....

We'll cover that in our next blog post.

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