Close to nature and at her whim
There is always something going on at the cafe in the small village of Enxames. It’s a no frills café with several tables inside and outside under a large metal awning. The espresso is 50¢, the galao (café latte) 70¢, a glass of wine or …
A friend recently commented that the world I live in is a magical world. Very true. I love my life and the places we visit. I find enormous pleasure in watching the world. If a moment translates into a photo, even better, because then I …
Ísla Partida has a thriving bat population. Uniquely adapted, these bats catch and eat fish with long clawed feet and carry their catch in a pouch between their legs and wings. An ocean upwelling nearby provides constant supply of the little fish these bats feed on. The …
A place of peaceful beauty, Mazatlán lies at the Southern Sea of Cortez on mainland Mexico. Mazatlán means ‘place of the deer’ in Nahuatl, spoken by the native Indian tribe. Later the French coined it the ‘Pearl of the Sea of Cortez’. The perfect place …
Thousands of birds, circling in the sky, nesting, fishing. Day and night, Ísla Ísabel is teaming with life. We have seen some nature along the way, but this island topped it all. Ísla Ísabel lies twenty miles off the mainland of Pacific Mexico and because …
Yesterday, we hung out with Lupe. Lupe opened the one and only restaurant in Bahía San Evaristo two years ago. Cruisers, who anchor in this bay every year, encouraged this small fishing village of around a hundred souls to cater to the passing boats and …
It was a short sail over to Bahía Kino, past a rock formation the Seri call Ak Akeem and another, which looks like a sphinx from one side and like a turtle coming the other way. No wonder that both have a special place in …
The Benedict brothers of West Los Angeles had us over for dinner last night. We met Steven, the older of the two, at an arts and crafts show at Bahía de los Ángeles’ natural history museum, where he invited us for dinner. He picked us …
Beginning of August we hauled out the Imagine. The prices here in Puerto Peñasco for sanding and painting are so good, that we decided to go all out and sand the whole boat from top to bottom including the bright work (wood parts). The bottom …
They say sailing and cruising will slow you down. So far we have been racing down Baja to La Paz to get North of the 25° latitude, because our insurance wants us there. We want to be there too because officially hurricane season has started …
Before we left San Diego for Mexico, we provisioned. Bought a lot of food, as if we wouldn’t touch land for another six months. We didn’t know what to expect and wanted to be prepared. We had been eating great fruit and vegetables imported from …
Once we turned the corner at Cabo San Lucas away from the mighty Pacific, which hadn’t been very gentle with us, and were 5 miles into the Sea of Cortez, it got hot. Way hot and humid. Samba started panting and we started sweating. It suddenly …
