We are in Mexico!!

Hola everyone!!

We are in Bahia de Tortuga (Turtle Bay). This small village is 210 miles south of Ensenada. We travelled from Ensenada on the 16th of January and sailed south 65 miles to San Quintin Bay. We waited out a 3-day storm while we were anchored there. The wind was clocked at 44 knots and the five boats anchored had an interesting three days to say the least!! One boat lost it's anchor and careened through the anchorage helpless to do anything. Miraculously, she did not hit anyone, and a man from the boat Elixir was able to get an anchor and rope to the boat before it hit the shore. Quite alot of excitement to say the least!! It turned out that the storm flooded the village of San Quintin, knocked out 2 bridges and cut off the village from outside roads. They called a state of emergency and the army was on site helping with repairs. We walked into town after the main storm had blown through for a few groceries. We found a ride with a young man and his wife and they gave us a ride into town and then as far back as they could on the washed out roads.

We left San Quintin on Jan. 23 and sailed the 160 miles to Turtle Bay. We are leaving today for Magdalena Bay and should arrive in 2 days time. There are many stories to relate, but we need to get going on our way to Mag bay. I will give a full report when we get to Cabo San Lucas, which our destination after Magdalena Bay.

Adios Amigas!!

Once there was a store named Minneys.....

I am writing this today as I sit in San Diego harbour while Blake takes care of our cruising discharge from the united states. Upon his return, we will head off to Mexico!!! Ensenada is 69 miles south of San Diego which is an easy day sail away. Once into Mexico, I do not know how often we will have access to internet, but we will try to keep you as updated as possible.
Now on to the story about Minneys...
This new and used marine store is every mariners dream. They have just about every part a sailor could possibly want and then some. The prices and selection are second to none that we have come across so far in our travels. Blake thought he had died and gone to heaven. Jeff and sherry helped us until we had spent so much time there they were asking us where stuff was...

See anything you like?

Blake bought the pieces to create a new bow roller - total cost of pieces - $68. - 00 new cost 359.00 - Look on Blake's face when he had the finished bow roller - priceless!!(picture coming soon)

We spent so much time there at Minneys they gave us T-shirts!!

Morro Bay to Santa Barbara

Morro Rock - south of San Francisco. This rock is a volcanic plug created 26,000 years ago. All the breakwaters around Morro bay were built from rock blasted Morro rock which is a similiar rock to granite. Excavation of this rock ceased in 1963. Morro Bay

Wing on wing - 10knots!!

Coming into Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara Marina

Santa Barbara

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone!! We are currently in Newport Beach California and will be heading south around the 7th of January. We had planned to head south a little sooner, but we are enjoying Newport Beach so much, we thought we would hang around a little longer than originally planned. That's the beauty of cruising, you can do whatever blows your hair back!!

The following pics are from our time in San Francisco

Of course, no blog would be complete without a shot of alcatraz Dining at the crabhouse at Pier 39 in san francisco

crab anyone?

Vicki and I at Pier 39 near Fishermans wharf

Forbes Island - California style!!