We are now in Puerto Escondido, just about to head back to La PAz slowly to pick up a few things.
We have been here about a week, enjoying the Loreto Fest, a cruisers event. We learnt some good fishing tips and ate some hot dogs. The highlight was definitely a hike up the "steinbeck Canyon" which was absolutely spectacular. Not a place to be caught in a storm however!
After another visit to La PAz we will head up into the sea of Cortez for the summer. Temperatures are still not too high, but we get the occasional day that warns us of what is coming. Definitely worth getting up and active early.
School is getting back into a regular rythmn after a bit of a break associated with being busy. Steff and the kids have spent a while at Spanish school in La Paz, and will do some final lessons on this visit.
Our watermaker should finally be working soon and some photos will follow.
Monday, 3 May 2010
Thursday, 8 April 2010
Charlie went to the Vancouver Games.
Before I went to the Games I had seen one live hockey match. I saw about six Women,s games and Maybe ten men's games.
I watched the fils Bozetto win a Bronze in Snowboarding in the pouring rain.
I met some mounties.
Curling is cool.
I had never seen curling, live or on TV and I spent at least ten sessions at the venue.
I was probably the only person in Vancouver with access to the Gold medal Hockey game who didn't go. ( I would have only seen it on TV from behind the Ice and I was cream crackered)
I caught up with some old friends, saw my mum and filed my tax return.
I have never felt so Canadian.
Some Photos
Flun Flun Flun (As Steff says after two (2) glasses of wine). Some days are just about maintenancce. This one was to take off the heat exchanger and take it to the Radiatore Man to be pressure tested (put it in a basin of the dirtiest water I have ever seen and then put an air hose in one end and a thumb in the other and look for bubbles). All new hose clamps, new zincs, some new hose and new coolant. A new radiator cap and we are running 10° cooler. All Happy now.
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
What Happened for two months!!!
Well in two days it is April the 1st.
We have been up to lots, just not blogging about it:)
Charlie went to Vancouver for a month to observe his project at the Vancouver Olympics. It was fantastic, but a bit of sleep deprivation was involved. Glad to get back to the boat for a few restful night passages. Filed a tax return and caught up with some friends. Even slid a round for a day on the white stuff - thankyou John.
Steff, Emily and Christo spent a week at a Spanish school in Yelapa, and then they did a road trip into the interior of Mexico to see Monarch butterflies and some colonial architecture.
We all got back to the boat for the begining of March, spent a few days at La Cruz on the North of Banderas By and then heade North again. A night at Chacala (One of our favourites) and then on to Mazatlan. A few days there, then a two night trip acros to the Baja again. Some good sailing , some motoring and some more good sailing to windward. Adios III does sail well.
Then we had three days at Playa Bonanza on the East side of Isla Espiritu Santu. Some snorkelling and hiking, but a lot of time on the boat as it blew 40+knots for two days. Two anchors out and lots of chain gave us restful nights but it was noisy and we didn't like to leave the boat much. Actually it was challenging to leave the boat. When it finally went down I snorkelled over the anchors and they were both buried out of sight!
A night in our old favourite spot of Caleta Lobos, where we had spent Christmas 2001 with Rick from Firewater, and now we are anchored in La Paz doing the famed "La Paz Waltz". It is a narrow channel with a significant tidal flow and the wind is often against the current. The result is that we all sail about at anchor in a seemingly random manner. Two boats a hundred feet apart will be facing in opposite directions. Quite entertaining if you have enough space.
Tomorrow we should go onto the dock and I will take the heat exchanger off the motor as it needs a repair. Steff is going to try and wade through the paper trail needed to get our FM3 visas which will allow us to stay for the year without having to leave the country every six months. Should challenge her rapidly improving Spanish.
The blog is under new management, so I will endeavour to keep it a bit more regular. Photos to follow tomorrow
We have been up to lots, just not blogging about it:)
Charlie went to Vancouver for a month to observe his project at the Vancouver Olympics. It was fantastic, but a bit of sleep deprivation was involved. Glad to get back to the boat for a few restful night passages. Filed a tax return and caught up with some friends. Even slid a round for a day on the white stuff - thankyou John.
Steff, Emily and Christo spent a week at a Spanish school in Yelapa, and then they did a road trip into the interior of Mexico to see Monarch butterflies and some colonial architecture.
We all got back to the boat for the begining of March, spent a few days at La Cruz on the North of Banderas By and then heade North again. A night at Chacala (One of our favourites) and then on to Mazatlan. A few days there, then a two night trip acros to the Baja again. Some good sailing , some motoring and some more good sailing to windward. Adios III does sail well.
Then we had three days at Playa Bonanza on the East side of Isla Espiritu Santu. Some snorkelling and hiking, but a lot of time on the boat as it blew 40+knots for two days. Two anchors out and lots of chain gave us restful nights but it was noisy and we didn't like to leave the boat much. Actually it was challenging to leave the boat. When it finally went down I snorkelled over the anchors and they were both buried out of sight!
A night in our old favourite spot of Caleta Lobos, where we had spent Christmas 2001 with Rick from Firewater, and now we are anchored in La Paz doing the famed "La Paz Waltz". It is a narrow channel with a significant tidal flow and the wind is often against the current. The result is that we all sail about at anchor in a seemingly random manner. Two boats a hundred feet apart will be facing in opposite directions. Quite entertaining if you have enough space.
Tomorrow we should go onto the dock and I will take the heat exchanger off the motor as it needs a repair. Steff is going to try and wade through the paper trail needed to get our FM3 visas which will allow us to stay for the year without having to leave the country every six months. Should challenge her rapidly improving Spanish.
The blog is under new management, so I will endeavour to keep it a bit more regular. Photos to follow tomorrow
Monday, 1 February 2010
February 1st, 2010
Where are we???
Well, today we are in Paradise Marina in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. It rained here and that is amazing as it has not rained in Februrary since they began recording rainfall! We don't mind as it cools things off a bit!
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