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Category: Sailing Tales

Sailing Tales

Isla San Marcos to San Carlos

12 August 2009By admin

These are the caves at the northwestern end of Isla San Marcos on Los Arcos. We snorkeled in the lee of the rocks. Lovely. As

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Iglesia Santa Barbara de Santa Rosalia

2 August 2009By admin

What a lovely service. A breeze wafted in the windows, but with the humidity approaching 100%, sweat drenched everything. Still, the music was enthusiastic, and

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Santa Rosalia — hot dogs and parties

1 August 2009By admin

We toured the town yesterday. Faye, Ken, and Michael scarfed down a few of the famous bacon-wrapped, coated-with-everything hot dogs at Chuyitas Hot Dog stand

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Aqua Verde to Santa Rosalia

30 July 2009By admin

It’s been a while since I last had enough bandwidth and/or time to post anything. The photos above show the lovely water at Aqua Verde

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Anchoring in Bahia Aqua Verde

6 July 2009By admin

Here is how clear the water was in Aqua verde. That’s the anchor buoy on top of the water and the anchor down 26.5 feet.

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La Fuente: The BEST Ice Cream in the world

16 June 2009By admin

  Mama, Michael, and I agree, the ice cream at La Fuente, on the Malecon in La Paz, has to be some of the best

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Lovely bird, lovely water

16 June 2009By admin

  We stopped in Caleta Partida, a bay between Isla Partida and Isla Espiritu Santo, on our way back to La Paz for a quick

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Ella spies out the land

6 June 2009By admin

Mama’s trip on Sea Venture: We motored out of La Paz harbor on Tuesday, May 26, as soon as the wind had died enough to

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La Paz again

29 April 2009By admin

We’re anchored in Ensenada de la Paz, off the Magote, which is a peninsula protecting the harbor area from the more open Bahia de la

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More Thoughts on Mexico

14 April 2009By admin

From our first months in Ensenada we noticed it. And from frequent trips across the border, we noticed the lack of it. Happiness. Contentment, in

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