Cabo San Lucas

WILDERNESS

Here we are leaving San Diego, escorted by our friends boat Wilderness. They gave us each a lei ( on the water, with the boathook!)

We look quite nice , dont we???

We think they only escorted us to make sure we were really leaving!



Its never easy to leave friends behind, but we will keep in touch as much as we can and just keep hoping to meet again someplace someday.


On the trip from San Diego to Magdalena Bay, weather was mostly like this during the days, but the night were pretty cold, needing lots of sweater, foulweather jackets and even occasionally gloves and hats!






Almost at the entry to Magdalena Bay. The bay is enormous, almost as big as San Francisco Bay and is full of whales , if you are there at the right time! We were a bit late, but did take a trip and saw some whales, no, no luck with pictures! To me still very spectaculair, I had never seen them before.

The little village in Man of War Cove, one of the anchorages is Magdalena Bay. Very small shop, I didnt go ashore there, but Gil and Lexi, our friends on Sunday, our sistership, ( for whom we brought a new autopilot) had been and said there was enough food to feed half a family. We dont feel good to buy things then, the locals need them more then we, so a couple days later we went to San Carlos, a slightly bigger village, to do some shopping. Half an hour in a very fast and bouncy panga got Lexi and Joe ( Gils brother, just to keep you all informed!) and John and Fran of the boat Gosling from Canada and me safely but with sore bottoms! ashore.

Did our internet and made some calls, some shopping and had some lunch, the best tamales in town according to yet another yachtie we met!

Here are Lexi and Joe enjoying lunch.

While we were out watching for whales, we came past a fishingboat, they were fishing with a big net, cant think of the name at the moment, it will come back to me! Anyway, a long circular net, that they when it is full close underneath and then haul it in. All the fish are trapped and when the have hauled most of the net on board and all the fish is at the surface, they put a big pump in and suck out all the fish. Its fun to watch, there must have been 30 pelicans in and out of the net, 40 frigate birds circling around and a whole lot of seals jumping in and out as well. One of them got trapped in the net, but as far as we know they let them free when the finished with getting all the fish on board.

CABO SAN LUCAS

It's finally warm!!

We are in Cabo San Lucas, a very busy little town. We share the bay with about 2 cruise ships a day, 5 or 6 more sail boats, what seems like at least 100 jet skis, glassbottom boats that double as water taxis, probably more then 100 as well. Then a few para sailing boats, the odd sea lion and some fish. All in all enough to keep you busy!

neighbours!

We will go on to Los Frailes tomorrow,about 40 miles, so should be an easy day sailing.

then direction La Paz, where we hope to receive our chart for the GPS,we ended up with two the same ones, both for Mexico, not good when we go down to Costa Rica!

Nights are still chilly, so we wont pack up our woolly things just yet, days are nice and warm.


Jeff caught somebodys cold and didnt feel too well for the last couple days. So, left him in charge of the boat while I went ashore yesterday with Gil, Lexi and Joe. We took a bus to the shops, but ended up buying too much to carry, so needed a taxi back!
Very much a tourist resort, everybody speaks english and most prices are in dollars. Interesting to see, but not a place to spend a lot of time.

Jeff was happy with the papaya I bought him, we had it for breakfast this morning!

Thats it for the moment!