Scream
Wildlife Repellant Failure
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 […]
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 […]
Back in La Paz
After twelve days trying to get north, we're back in La Paz to re-provision. We know a number of other boats who are also failing to go north, including Kalagan and Warana from the 2008 BCA Island Fleet. The winds and seas in the Sea of Cortez aren't anything like what we are accustomed to. […]
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 […]
Cabo San Lucas
Cabo San Lucas was a culture shock. After being more or less alone on the Baja for a month, when we turned into Cabo after an easy overnighter from Magdalena Bay, it was shocking. The two cruise ships, numerous parasailors and millions of jet-skiiers were just too much. It was so surprising that I had […]
Club Cruceros de La Paz
Update (March 14, 2009): We are leaving La Paz so this address is no longer valid for sending us mail. We joined the cruiser club here in La Paz. We're not sure that we're going to get much out of it, but they do offer a few services and it seems like the right thing […]
Magdalena Bay
Mag Bay is about the size of San Francisco Bay. The western side is formed by mountain islands while the eastern side is so flat as to be below the horizon when viewed across the vast bay from the anchorages. This gives the impression of another open roadsted anchorage, even when one is actually surrounded […]