The last couple of legs were uneventful. Moderate winds and seas, warm temperatures and scenic secure anchorages and only one other boat around. A few pictures are posted below.
We will spend over a week in La Paz enjoying a Mexican city preparing for Christmas. Activities every night on the boardwalk, usually programs for children.
Then we will make a couple of dayhops to the very southeastern edge of the Baja Peninsula.
We will then wait for a weather window and make the 165 n. mi. overnight leg over to Mazatlan on the mainland.
My friend Dean Wilson ask me last summer why we jumped over to the Baja from the mainland then crossed back. Why not just stay on the mainland side? The brief answer I gave Dean was that there is only one port between Mazatlan and San Carlos and it is not reasonably accessible to cruising sailboats. That port has a long channel that takes the better part of a day to enter. That is true, but beyond that, the coastline is mostly mangrove swamp and mosquito infested. Cruisers say the area is malaria infested and to stay more that five miles offshore to avoid the chance of getting malaria.
That is still not the full story. The rest of the story is that the Baja side of the Sea of Cortez is some of the finest cruising grounds in the world with beautiful anchorages every 20 to 40 miles and predictable warm winds. As you can see from the photo’s on this blog.
Below I posted some pictures of the inside of Vagari.
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