Welcome to Vagari’s 7th winter of sailing. We have put 8,000 miles under Vagari’s keel during those cruises but this year like last year won’t be a high mileage year. We just don’t have the lust for the long cruises that we did when we started cruising but we still enjoy living on board and sailing near our homeport. Welcome aboard! We hope you enjoy our blog. Your comments, questions and suggestions are appreciated and encouraged.

Friday, April 28, 2006

Hello from our anchorage in Puerto Escondido on the beautiful East coast of the Mexican Baja Peninsula.

Vagari has spent the last two weeks away from the dock hopping from one picturesque anchorage to another in some of the best cruising country and weather either of us has ever enjoyed.

The pictures will show what we mean.

The best part is that we have another three plus weeks away from the dock to go and that our good friends Bob & Jean Ley will join us during most of May.

In addition we will spend a four-day weekend enjoying “Loreto Fest”. Loreto Fest is a cruisers gathering that features lots of live music by cruisers, seminars on subjects of interest to cruisers (amateur radio, Sea of Cortez weather forecasting, instrument electronics, cooking aboard, current Mexican boating and visa regulations, etc.) and food and perhaps a beverage or two.

We will end the month at our homeport, San Carlos; and should be home starting June 1st for the summer getting ready for next seasons cruise.

Rheas` contribution:

In another month we will have finished our second full cruising season. After almost six months I will be ready to resume my dirt-dwelling life. I miss my children; their offspring and my friends.

We are really looking forward to seeing our friends Bob and Jean Ley. Even through we often buddy boat with the different people you meet along the way. you get lonesome for people from home. If the remainder of the season goes as well as the rest, I’ll be back next year ready to continue my fascination with Mexico; it’s people, and other cruisers we meet. This is certainly a beautiful and most charming country to visit.

I’m getting much better with Photo Shop. Eating tofu patties while anchored behind Punta San Marte.

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Tucked behind Punta San Marte


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Sailing into 10 kts

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An appropriate sunset for this beautiful anchorage (2).

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The wonders of Photo Shop.

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We had tofu patties for lunch but we really wanted lobster. But lobster is illegal for us to buy or even have aboard so Photo Shop made our desires come true.

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Palo Verde Trees

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Seven pictures from the “Gato & Toro” anchorage; a riot of colorful volcanic rocks and white sand beaches.

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Underway just after dawn between Evaristo and Gato & Toro (2).

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A small part of the San Evaristo saltpans

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Rhea looking at a gravestone of a baby (’81 to ’83) by road leading to commercial saltpans.

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School for the fishing-sea salt collection community of San Evaristo with the settlement in the background

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Six shots from Isla San Francisco. Next to last is a natural salt pan

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Galloping Cactus

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