speargun for sale: CHEAP!

All you have to do is pick it up. Head to these coordinates: N25°31.662' W111°04.136'. It should about 30 feet below you (depending on the tide).

[sigh...]

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more catching up

We got ahold of a big, fat, juicy internet connection in Puerto Escondido so we uploaded photos and caught up on blog entries going a month back.

01.23.2010 Crossing the Sea of Cortez
01.24.2010 San Carlos
02.01.2010 Santa Rosalia
02.05.2010 Bahia Concepcion
02.22.2010 San Juanico
02.25.2010 Puerto Ballandra - Isla Carmen
03.01.2010 Puerto Escondido

Updated photo galleries.

Happy work avoidance!

Puerto Escondito and Loreto

We know, we know...we said we'd NEVER come back to Puerto Escondito, but the lure of internet and fresh produce was too great and we ended up here again. Just for a few days, but enough to get a few blog posts done and fill up on fuel and whatnot. We buddied up with our friends on s/v Rio Nimpkish and rented a car for a day to go to Loreto and explore. It was a great splurge after spending nearly nothing all month. We found it easy to fix that problem and spent a ton on eating out, provisioning and negotiating for a new sarang for Jason (picture coming soon).


The mission in Loreto - the first on Baja.


The "roof" you see here is actually the glass bottom of the hotel's rooftop pool. Bathing suits optional?


Dog on a truck.


We will not die of scurvy, that's for sure.

25°49'00"N 111°18'81.67"W

Ballandra - Isla Carmen

On our way up the Baja coast, we scurried along north whenever we had favorable wind so we could then take our time coming south with the prevailing winds. That said, we find ourselves visiting some of the same anchorages we hit on our way north because they are pretty damn fun. Ballandra is one such example. That and we didn't finish the hike there. On visit #1, we hiked up a great arroyo which theoretically would lead us to the other side of the island to an old salt mine. Unfortunately, we left too late to make it to the other side. We were determined this time to get all the way over there, so we left at a reasonable hour (2pm was the earliest we could muster) and headed east. Jason was in the lead and somehow got us off the trail and out of the right arroyo until we were climbing over trees and through the scrub.

We started out on a real trail...


"Does the trail go through this tree?"
"No, it goes over it..."
*sigh*

Did we make it to Salinas? Surprisingly not. We'll just have to come back and try again.

26°01'11.40"N 111°09'50.04"W

san juanico again

We reluctantly parted ways with all of our friends in Bahia Concepcion to head south. We motored for most of a day to get down to Punta Pulpito, a cool anchorage marked by a massive volcanic point. Pulpito has great protection from the north but wide open from the south. As the winds were shifting the next day, we took off for La Ramada in the morning.

To Ramada from Pulpito was only about 7 miles and we had all day to get there so we unfurled the sails and shut the engine off to ghost along at a knot or so. As the wind filled in from the south, Hello World got a little momentum underway. Soon we were hauling the mail in a 10 knot breeze 30 degrees off port bow. We raced all the other boats into the anchorage (ignoring the fact that they are all at least 13' shorter than Hello World - hey, we're not proud).

The next day, the wind shifted again so we ran around the corner into San Juanico proper and anchored with... 16 other boats. We haven't seen this many boats since La Paz. We're used to sharing an anchorage with one or two other boats. But sixteen?

There was plenty of room, so sunk the hook and hung out for a few days. We did some hiking, met some great folks on boats and hung out with campers on the beach. We met a couple from Telluride, CO - Ben and Bev - who spend their summers in Telluride and their winters driving around Baja camping out of their Land Rover. They had this brilliant tent system from South Africa that folded out of the top of their rig. So they spend their winters driving from Mexican beach to Mexican beach, camping and living on the beach. They call it "overlanding". Overlanding is now another entry on Christy & Jason's list of Interesting Ways To Spend Life.


Our friends on s/v Alta Mae took this picture of Hello World at sunrise at Punta Pulpito.


The awesome volcanic headlands of Punta Pulpito.


The San Juanico anchorage.


Christy gets a nice little chariot ride in the dinghy through the shallows.


The high-security private property gate. A few bowls of ice cream later and I wouldn't have fit.


Ben and Bev in front of their supercool overlanding setup.


Potluck on the beach with all the camping folk.

26°22'06.01"N 111°25'39.76"W