We left La Paz under a brisk wind March 31. Robert (and Dusty) sailed in his boat, Destiny, with us to Partida and San Francisco Islands and that was great fun since we had dinner together each night and hiked the trails together on both islands. He even joined our daily Scrabble game a few times. We snapped photos of each other sailing as we left La Paz and we got to use our spinnakers for a while on the sail to San Francisco.
After Robert returned to La Paz, we went a little further north and ran into friends Alex and Edith and Andy and Deb at Evaristo. Steve worked on Seagull engine and battery issues. Then we headed up to El Gato, 30 miles north.
As in all the other anchorages we’ve visited, fishing is a way of life here and the families that live on the rocky Baja coast depend on it because little else is available. We see the men out in their panga fishing boats collecting or casting nets and diving along the reefs. Some of these families also keep goats to make cheese from their milk.
Some high points from this section of the adventure: hiding out in a safe anchorage listening to 30-40 knots of wind howl all night, getting the dinghy outboard working again, beach walks, desert hikes, getting the anchor stuck (temporarily).
