March 2009

Fun

Whales

March 26, 2009

Footage of whales we've seen since we left Canada, including some enormous Blue Whales.

Travel

Sea of Cortez

March 19, 2009

Checking in while sailing south in the Sea of Cortez.

Fun

Pelicans

March 12, 2009

Video of brown pelicans feeding along with some Heermann's Gulls and Boobies. Begins in Caleta San Juanico and ends in Bahia Agua Verde (literally the "bay of green water").

Fun

One of the maddening things about living on a cruising boat is that things break. All the time. Something is always on the blink, needing work or just plain broken. However, sometimes that's not as bad as other times. The most recent thing to decide to fail on board is the Wildlife Repellant feature of […]

Agua Verde Rendezvous

March 6, 2009

We pulled into beautiful Bahia Agua Verde on Tuesday afternoon. The bay is large, with several anchoring locations, and it deserves its reputation as a destination anchorage. The water really is a lovely shade of green, and so clear that you can see the brightly coloured fish swimming over your anchor. The snorkeling is amazing […]

Spring in the Sea

March 2, 2009

Spring has definitely sprung in the Sea of Cortez. For the last week or so, the daytime highs have been around 30 degrees Celsius, with cloudless, sunny skies. We are swimming pretty regularly now, and Steven has even decided that it might be warm enough to forgo the wetsuit (I've been of that opinion for […]