Loaded up in Monterey and headed to Mexico, we need some Pacifio weather (1/22/20).

First sight of Bahia San Luis Gonzaga on highway 5.

The 1 mile long road into Papa Fernandez\'s beach camp, they have a launch ramp and a restaurant the beach camping is past over a short ( couple hundred yards)but steep 4x4 ridge. This is a famous old fly in fishing area from before they paved the road.

Our camp at Papa Fernandez\'s from the beach dune.

The beach at San Luis Gonzaga, Papa Fernandez's beach camp, typically flat calm, lake like, Sea of Cortez unless of one of the occasional northers is blowing. January weather today mid 70s.

Our first days drive down to Bahia San Luis Gonzaga from the US border. Our actual drive time with the border crossing and some storm damaged bypasses was about 7 hours.

Our launch point is at Puerto Escondido just below Loreto, then down to La Paz by sea. Up in the north east the lower highway 5 shown as dirt is now a good wide paved highway all the way to highway 1.

We have arrived, warm sun, cold Margaritas, blue seas.

Puerto Escondido marina, from the restaurant deck, they have a brick oven for pizza, great ones.
January 2020

Nice, no more rain and cold here south of Loreto.

Bahia Conception
The Anchorage at Santispac where we anchored many times on Audacious our steel cruising sailboat.

In with the big boys at Marina Escondido, off south to La Paz in a couple days, it is so nice here it\'s hard to leave it is the fanciest most modern, luxurious marina now with new owners that I have ever seen. As you can see plenty of room for more c-brats! They also launched Sierra with a tractor while we were aboard, then put the trailer in storage.

Morning coffee, nice view, Puerto Escondido.
Setting up the dinghy and it's outboard, portable gas, paddle board, running in the watermaker and all the other things we need to get off the road and head out on the water. So far we haven't needed the shore power the solar is charging to 100% mid day running the fridge, freezer and everything else.starting to watch the weather (wind) forcasts....

Wow look what just pulled into Puerto Escondido,the Westward out or Friday harbor Wa, they charter back and forth from here to Alaska in the summer, the huge old 1 lunger Atlas was literally idling at 50 RPM cachunk klick cachunk click! It must have been doing 200 RPM on the way in, So cool!!! They are living their dream!
She is coming up to her 100th birthday!

Sierra is loaded up almost ready to head down the Sea to La Paz, even though it is perfectly warm and beautiful here.

Dana cruising along with an unfortunately non functioning Simrad thank God for iPads, something with the network or the chartplotter itself. Update; we called customer service and they gave us the reprogram commands so it is now back talking to the Suzuki.

20-21 knots (21 nautical mph = just over 24 statuate mph) for 125 miles, an unusually grey day, good for making time. Seas around a foot at 4 seconds but then increasing to higher left over wind slop with an occasional whitecap . The Suzuki never missed a beat, normally we would want to take slower hops but we wanted to be here for Marti-Gras then slowly work out way back up to Loreto. (We did make the super bowl kickoff here in La Paz!)

Our slip at Marina de La Paz our base for the next month.

Check out our neighbors boat!
Only mid sized here in La Paz at 100 feet.

La Paz was originally the base for the early pearl diving trade.
And where John Steinbeck wrote "The Pearl" story in 1940.

The beautifully newly redone malecon along the La Paz waterfront, we were last here in 2015..

All the families are out walking and biking today as it is the Constitution Signing national holiday. As an artist I am always amazed at how much great public art I see in Mexico.

The waterfront plaza.

The breakfast $3 fruit plate at Marina de La Paz, along with hand squeezed orange juice, we love Mexico!