La Paz- Our Home Port?

We just keep coming back to Marina Costa Baja in La Paz, shown above. When we did not receive the depth sounder in a timely manner, we decided it would be better to return to the Baja and do some other refits as well before taking on the major venture of traveling to Central America. So after 12 days in Manzanillo we turned Grey Wolf north again and retraced our steps to Banderas Bay, then 45 hours across the ocean to Los Frailles and Los Muertos. We arrived in La Paz on January 17 and plan to be here three days before taking about a week to move north to Santa Rosalia where we will leave the boat. We will do our taxes and purchase needed supplies and equipment before returning. Bill's brother, Barry, has decided to pull out of San Carlos on his boat this February and hopes to meet up with us for a while in the Sea of Cortez. We have not seen him for the better part of a year now, so that will be fun.

On Hold In Manzanillo

This seems to be our time to have problems with our equipment! When we arrived in Puerto Vallarta our depth sounder was acting up. Now it will only stay on for five minutes and then it cuts out. SO, arriving here in Manzanillo we were forced to anchor deep- turned out to be in 41 feet of water. We like 25 feet but did not dare move in toward shore without a working depth sounder. Bill has ordered a new one through a dealer in San Diego and it will arrive some time after January 8, we hope! We have been hanging out on the boat~ watching TV, working on the computer, sewing, and reading. This bay is popular and feels like a mini-Cabo. There are jet skiers, wakeboarders, banana boaters, kayakers, etc. aplenty every afternoon. Of course, this is still vacation time down here, so by next week it will probably quiet down! The above photo shows Playa Miramar- our view from the boat when pointing west... The top photo is Marina Las Hadas and the surrounding community where we went to land our dinghy and catch a bus into town~ so white and so pretty! Note boats in the lower right-hand corner behind the seawall.