Peggy & Pat's Sailing Adventures
Today, July 24, we got up and hit the trail before it got too hot. A quick dinghy ride to the beach over clear water. The beach is great and it gets lot of tourists from Loreto, only 6 miles away. But it is kept really clean and not overwhelmed by the crowds. The trail starts off as a raised
Monday morning (7/19) we left Puerto Escondido and motored 4 miles to Honeymoon Cove on Isla Danzante. The cove is pretty and has several lobes. We went snorkeling several times. Because we love snorkeling. And because it was really hot. And to avoid the bees. The hole above was about 3/4 inch in diameter. Once I did see something poke
On June 29 Peggy and I flew home to San Diego to see friends and family and pickup equipment. We spent July 3 – 6 in the Bay area visiting my son Bryan and Peggy’s Aunt Pat and Uncle Frank and her cousins. We also went to a 4th of July party with my Berkeley friends. And then back to
Continue readingA trip home and then back to Puerto Escondido
In the morning of June 25 we motored about 2 miles to Candeleros Chico (Little Candlesticks). It is a very small and well protected bay with room for one boat. Just as we arrived, a boat was leaving – perfect timing! The bay is well known for great snorkeling so we spent lots of time in the clear warm water
Continue readingCandeleros Chico – a new place on our ‘favorites list’
Leaving about 8:30am June 23, we motored about 4 hours to Bahia Candeleros (Candlesticks), named for three islands near the entrance to the bay. It is a wide bay with a high end resort, Villa de Palmar, at one end. After dropping anchor I was concentrating on some splicing and Peggy noticed that a nearby boat had used their air
We left San Evaristo at about noon for a 4 hour sail to Bahia Los Gatos. The winds were initially very light so we motor-sailed. Then they picked up a bit and we sailed ‘wing-on-wing’ with the main on the port side and the jib out on the starboard side. A very nice downwind sail. Near the end the wind
We had a downwind sail with wind 12 to 20 knots. Most of the time we were wing-on-wing. Really pleasant. There is something about sailing downwind that I really like. The motion of the swells slowly catching you, lifting the boat and then after a brief acceleration as you ‘surf’ down the wave, you settle gently into the trough and
We sailed from Isla San Francsico to San Evaristo, an easy sail of about 10 miles. The bay is well protected from winds from the south and west which is what we expect here this time of year. There is a little town and we wanted to go back to a restaurant we had been to a couple years earlier
We left Ensenada Grande early June 15 for a short trip to Embudo, also on Isla Partida. We anchored and dinghy’d over to Isla Islote to see the sea lion rookery where we’d been told we could swim with the sea lions. When we arrived we had a visit from the park rangers who very nicely explained that June through
On June 13 we took a short hop from Mezteno on Isla Espiritu Santu to Ensenada Grande on Isla Partida. It is a large, relatively open bay which means plenty of anchoring space but also less protection from the swell. The water was clear and warm, just like the weather. As it has been getting hotter, we find that we
Continue readingEnsenada Grande – getting hotter means more time in the water!