11-16-12 – 50 miles from
Mazatlan, MX – Sea of Cortez
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| Anchorage at Cabo. You can see Autumn Wind on the left |
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| Entrance to Puerto Los Cabos Marina and resort |
It seems like I may have been a
little harsh on Cabo San Lucas last time; but after our stop in Puerto Los
Cabos and the city of San Jose Del Cabo, it was mostly spot on. The marina at Puerto Los Cabos and city of San
Jose Del Cabo were everything that Cabo San Lucas wasn’t. The marina was beautiful; although not quite
finished after many years of construction.
But what has been completed is great. Artwork and sculptures are everywhere along
the pathways, and while I should probably know more about their significance,
it made for a nice setting. Our walk in
to the old town of San Jose Del Cabo was once again the opposite of Cabo San
Lucas. With a nice town square, a large
art district; for those of you into such things; friendly people and the
feeling of a real city. There were
school children coming home from school, stores for people other than Gringo
tourists and with only a few exceptions no one was trying to hawk their endless
crappy tourist souvenirs to us.
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| Enjoying fresh tortillas at the mercado |
We visited the central mercado
where one can buy everything from fresh fish, veggies and meat, to straw hats,
clothes and any other assortment of things; all under one little roof. Next door I got to order my first fresh
tortillas. ½ a kilo of corn and ½ a kilo
of flour. Still hot to the touch. In case you’re wondering, that’s a lot of
tortillas; and only for $21 pesos. ( about $1.80 USD) Then a couple of cervezas for $1.50
each. It was nice to be out of the hype
of Cabo and in a more normal city.
After our fairly long walk back
with our still warm tortillas we had cocktails looking over the marina with friends
from s/v Silk and Wizard and then were invited to dinner on s/v Alcyone where
we had a small mountain of fresh caught fish from their friend on
s/v Willow.
Back at our boat as we were
getting ready for bed and an early AM departure we got a knock on the boat by
the security guard. We had never checked
in and he now decided we needed to give him our passports to guarantee we would
pay for our “slip” (with no power or water leading to a little building still
under construction) in the morning. Not
being very keen on giving a random guy our passports on a dark dock off of a
dusty little road in Mexico we resisted this request for some time. He was obviously with the marina, but it still
didn’t sound like a good idea. Not only
did we not want to turn over our passports, but we didn’t want to wait until
9:00 AM to retrieve them as we had planned a 2:00AM departure. Explaining all this to someone who doesn’t
speak English and essentially was just trying to do his job and follow the
rules was interesting. After much
gesturing and Elizabeth’s ability to decipher just enough Spanish he called
someone else who eventually let us pay that night. In the end they even went for a 10 minute
drive back to the office to get us a receipt and were quite apologetic about
the whole situation, even though it was really our fault for not checking
in. Crisis averted but we had severely
cut into our sleep time so after 3 hours of sleep we woke back up to take off
for our passage to Mazatlan, some 180 miles away.
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| No Landing Zone! |
If the success of a passage can
be gauged by the food you eat, this one has been great so far. Between the chicken quesadillas on fresh
tortillas for lunch, fresh made pumpkin bread to give the boat that smell of fall
in the Midwest, and pizzas for dinner we’ve been doing pretty well. We had some bird visitors earlier today as
they tried to land on the spreaders while we were under sail. They were never very successful on our boat,
but listening to the VHF is appears others had to chase them off their boats as
they were pooping everywhere. The things
you get to be interested in with two days on your hands and nowhere to go. 50 miles to Mazatlan where we’ll probably
spend Thanksgiving. All I know is that I heard rumor of a swim up bar at the
marina. We may just have to stay more
than two nights…
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| Sunset on day 1 of the passage to Mazatlan |
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