Bahia El Toro-Gato, a beautiful anchorage surrounded by sculptural red rocks, very remote.

Agua Verde cove, famous locally for the goats and fresh goat cheese made in the village.

Honeymoon cove on Isla Danzante is surrounded by cliffs with tremendous views from the hiking trails.

Last stop is back to our truck and trailer in Puerto Escondido and the marina for our exploration base for April.

84° here today but there has been a stream of clouds coming up from the equator off and on for weeks, no rain, just weird!

Some friends from the states visited today and wanted to see the islands and rented a panga for the day. We had a great time being passengers. The Capitan was great the panga was about 28\' feet and had a 225 Honda that cruised us along with a very soft ride at 28 mph. I asked him what he thought of Suzuki\'s and he thought that the Suzuki\'s were the number one best outboard down here then Honda then Yamaha, so different than in the US, but the pangeros run their boats hard for lots of hours so they should know what works best here. When he saw Sierra he called it a super panga!

The anchorage st Isla San Francisco

Apples big yacht (ship) with all it's toys on the outside, we are the little dot in front of it!

Dana and I had a nice hike along the ridge on Isla San Francisco.

Soft rain here today this is what Washington looks like....not the desert, very strange as here it is usually summer monsoon rains.

(Puerto Escondido marina just south of Loreto)

Gonzaga bay.

Gonzaga bay dawn, last day in Mexico.

Camped out at Gonzaga bay, 6 AM start to a 13 hour driving day that crossed the border and delt with LA freeway traffic in the rain. Ended up camped at a reststop at the top of Tejon pass on interstate 5. 40° and raining. All the hotels and restaurants are closed. I'm just glad I could get diesel, have some hot ramen noodles and have a warm dry bed on Sierra.

Disk brake trouble fix. The locater studs somehow backed out leaving the caliper unmoored. I checked the rest and found another stud half backed out. I tied it to the frame with some 1/8 ss welding wire, with 3 brakes I am glad I have a 1 ton truck, heavy with really strong brakes!!

Peeking out our door 7:30 this morning at the Tejon pass rest stop. 70s yesterday morning in Gonzaga bay...what a shock and we are not set up for the cold, mid 30s last night and summer bags to sleep in, our little propane heater is buried in the truck and not going to dig it out in the sleet last night! On to our Monterey slip today then going to hide out on the ranch. It was an intense week getting out of La Paz and through the semi closed US border. And I hate semis, blind corners, 13 hour drives and 9' lanes!

That was one cold night on the boat, already miss Mexico.

Back in our Monterey slip after 2 months away, over a month early so it is still cold, gloomy and rainy here. Overall our trip down Baja and our time out on the water was successful and Sierra did very well, pretty amazing actually!

Home sweet home, a good place to shelter in place, we brought lots of food and frozen meat off the boat so we can be isolated for a while. Looks like I have plenty of yard work to do after being gone!

Looking out from the house towards Point Sur, the ocean looks so cold and wintery here compared to the Sea of Cortez.
What a long strange trip it\'s been, thanks for watching!

!THE END!

One last steak on the BBQ in Monterey harbor goodbye for now. *

Point Sur from our place, it\'s not always dreary at the ranch. 2 weeks out from Mexico sheltering in place, so far we are healthy and staying home. Baja is almost completely shut down only fuel and food open (no beer!) and boating is restricted, I\'m glad we made it out but we missed the last best month in Baja. I hope to see you all in better times!