Great Blue heron, el Cardonal.

Carnaval week in La Paz.
Local kids performing in a La Paz folk dance group. All the young girls seem to be treated like a princess\'s by families here, always dressed in beautiful dresses.

Thin layers of marinated pork stacked on a spit then slowly rotated in front of the flames, then thinly sliced off for \"al Pastor\" street tacos, so good!

Looks like Quaker State has gone green in Mexico (4 stroke oil), Mexicans are evolving and becoming more environmentally conscious about the sea. They love all their whales especially.

Sunset from the Malacon over Marina de La Paz.

Dancing girls on floats, it must be Carnaval time in La Paz!

Carnaval

Carnaval La Paz BCS 2020

Carnaval

A sunset shot, another of the bronze mermaid playing with a dolphin sculpture on the La Paz Malacon.

Anchored in Caleta Lobos about 10 miles from La Paz overnight with the old classic 1922 motor yacht Westward who has her lights strung up, in the foreground is a big Amel ketch.

A C-brat asked about Suzuki dealers in Mexico. There may be more than Yamaha down here, this is an authorized Suzuki dealer a block and a half from our marina. Unfortunately they are not familiar with our C-10 smart guage programming, I think they only sell the simple Suzuki gauge set here. Suzuki\'s are everywhere on the water down here, at home our closest authorized dealer is a couple hours drive away.

Dana on the beach at Calita Partida cove. Sierra is in the background by far the smallest of the dozen boats in the anchorage, Dana was totally loving the looks and Portuguese bridge style of the big twin 800hp diesel Fleming 65 anchored outside of us! (Sorry no photo). The cheap Taiwan trawlers with the loud generators going all day drove us crazy. We are so used to the silence of our solar system.

More cactus on the beach Calita Partida.

Ensenada Partida the largest bay in the Islands is between Isla Espritu Santo and Isla Partida.

The beautiful long soft white sand beach in Ensenada Partita bay.

Christal clear water anchorage in Caleta Partida cove.

Caleta Partida cove in Ensenada Partida bay is the only one of the half dozen anchorages in the islands 27 miles north of La Paz that has close to 100% wave direction protection. On our 3 day trip we had unsettled conditions with winds cloclocking around and from calm to 17 knots.

Calm morning view the other way into Ensenada Partida bay where Isla Espiritu Santo and Isla Partida come nearly together and a connecting sand spit forms the bay.

Sierra dwarfed by the other boats and the landscape.

We are looking ahead the next few days for a weather window to start back north to Puerto Escondido

I am putting up some Navionics screen shots of some of our favorite anchorages between Loreto and La Paz.

1st stop north where we have been to a few times while in La Paz
All great anchorages except for west winds. Coromwel wins can come up at night.

Isla San Francisco one of the favorite anchorages in the Sea.

San Everisto a small fishing village is the next stop north.