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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 […]

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Fun
Iguanas

Some shots of Iguanas taken by Steven and his sister Katherine at El Cid marina in Mazatlán.

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Travel
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 […]

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Travel
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, […]

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Fun
Porpoises

Some of the porpoises that have come to visit us, including Bottlenose Dolphins who accompanied us into La Paz.

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Travel
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 […]

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Learning
Sea of Cortez: A Cruiser's Guidebook

We obtained a copy of Breeding and Bansmer's invaluable cruising guide before we arrived in Mexico. When we left the US we could not imagine how bad the official charts are in Latin America. The official charts are often over a century old. The Latitudes and Longitudes of major features are often incorrect by a […]

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Fun
Whales

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

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Travel
Sea of Cortez

Checking in while sailing south in the Sea of Cortez.

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Fun
Pelicans

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").

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