And Away We Go Again!

After four round trips from Santa Rosalia to California we are ready to leave again- this time to spend Spring on the Sea of Cortez! One of the pieces of new equipment Bill added is featured above (self-portrait of Bill...) - it is a combination of radar, GPS, fish finder and depth finder. He also installed a new auto pilot, so now we have back-ups for all of our electronics. With new deck paint in place we are ready to hang out in all the remote anchorages we love so much. Our first stop will be Bahia Concepcion where there are numerous anchorages. We hope that Bill's brother, Barry, will catch up with us there in about a month. It has been almost a year since we were together. By the time summer arrives we should be well-rested and tanned! Then we will head home to escape the intense heat of summer down here ~

...And a Giant Step Back...

After waiting and waiting for the depth sounder to be shipped we decided to return to Baja California and head back to San Diego and Indio to regroup. Bill had plenty of time to evaluate our equipment and the potential for major problems as we traveled further south. SO, we retraced our steps all the way to Santa Rosalia in Baja California South. We had some good weather and some irritating weather, but still nothing like the "Ugly Trip"... We stopped in La Paz for three days and anchored out the rest of the time, in spite of the fact that anchoring without the depth sounder was hectic and nerve-wracking. Fortunately, everywhere we anchored we had been at least once before so we had some idea of what to expect. We pulled back into the Singlar Marina and were surprised to find that there were only three boats there including us! A couple of days later we boarded a bus and rode the 15 hour trip to Tijuana. Thanks to Melinda and Arlene we were picked up and then brought to our very doorstep in Indio. Months of mail awaited us and there were bills to pay and tax data to organize, not to mention obtaining the supplies Bill needed to begin our reorganization of the equipment on Grey Wolf. Alice has been home two weeks and poor Bill has made a round trip plus another trip south to the boat where he is now working. It looks like Central America will be on our agenda for the fall of this year, not this spring.