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Isla Isabela
Footage of beautiful Isla Isabela, a bird sanctuary and nesting ground for frigate birds and yellow-footed and blue-footed boobies.
Barra de Navidad
Barra de Navidad is another destination anchorage in Mexico. The entrance is between a pair of breakwaters in the SE corner of Bahia de Navidad. Thereafter follows a well buoyed channel to the marina, which unfortunately charges US$2.50/foot/night. Too rich for us, so we proceeded into the lagoon. The lagoon is mostly quite shallow, with […]
Tenacatita
Scream spent three wonderful nights in the inner anchorage of the giant Bahia Tenacatita. Tenacatita is a destination, not just a stop along the way. We anchored in 5m less than 50m from shore where we could see land on the horizon in all directions for the first time in a month. There was only […]
Isla Isabela
Isla Isabela is an isolated island about 2km long and less than 1km wide about 30km offshore. It is a nesting ground for sea birds, including the blue footed boobie. For this reason the island is a national park. Isabela has three anchorages, none of them very good. We anchored in the most popular anchorage, […]
Mazatlán
Mazatlán is a city of 400,000, Mexico's largest commercial port, and our first port of call on the Mexican mainland. Mazatlán is a pleasant surprise. Mazatlán has both a strong tourist industry and non-tourist activity as well. Mazatlán has a first-rate harbour protected by islands and breakwaters. There is room for close to a hundred […]
Bahía Concepción
Scream arrived in Bahía Concepción a week ago. We've just been hanging out since then, mostly with Kalagan and Blue Moon. We have been rowing and dinghy sailing, but we haven't been swimming since Juanico a couple weeks ago. Steven wanted to come here to see the baby whales. Despite reports, we have seen no […]
Santa Rosalia
Santa Rosalia is a small town with an harbour exclosed by an excellent breakwater. Santa Rosalia was founded by a French mining company in 1884, which gives it some unusual features like a good french bakery. The harbour has two marinas and room for about a half dozen boats to anchor in 15 feet, mud. […]
Caleta San Juanico
We left Puerto Ballandra at dawn on the first day that was supposed to be calm. We had no wind for several hours, but the remains of a decent sea made for a bouncy motor north. The wind picked up around 11 am and flattened the seas, an we anchored in a good 20 kt […]
La Paz
La Paz, Mexico, is a city of over 100,000 people. La Paz is on the eastern, sheltered side of the Baha peninsula. It is also nearby a large number of good anchorages. La Paz is the place for supplies and maintenance in the first good cruising region south of Puget Sound. We wandered a good […]