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An Osprey in her nest atop a rock spire.

Rick, to hook our new Standard Horizon into our Simrad chartplotter I had to by a 2000-0183 adapter cord listed as an audio adapter. Good luck.

Harvey, we've been back out to the islands again in a different bay for a few days about 1 1/2 hours north of La Paz. This time we had more of the weather I remember, clear skys, calm nights with an afternoon sea breeze and low 80s temps. We checked in to the ham net, the net controller was down...

Sierra Spectra Ventura watermaker installation

The flowmeter shows we are making over 8 gallons an hour from the salty Sea of Cortez. 8 amps draw out of 14 amps put out by the solar system midday in Mexico.

Using the watermaker for the first time in Ensenada el Cardonal on Isla Partida 27 miles north of La Paz.

It is quite entertaining to watch the pelicans dive bombing for fish, not elegant at all just a big crash and splash! This trip we saw sea turtles, colorful tropical reef fish, an osprey in her nest. And some frigate birds.

Gas dock, some boats are bigger than others! There have to be dozens of 100' up to 300' foot super yachts just in La Paz, including Mark Zuckerberg's giant one, more of a ship. A big change from our trip down 10 years ago when there were only a few, a lot more rich people I guess.

Cardonal dawn reflections

Cardonal, Sierra reflections.

Lots of coral and tropical fish on the rocks along the shore of Ensenada de Cardonal

Early morning coffee time on a calm morning in Ensenada el Cardonal

Woke up to a calm 80° day, looks good till late Thursday so we are heading out to the islands.......Adios

smckean......it could happen.....we may invite some c-brats along next trip down.....if the Creeks don't rise! Or, how about all our plans are written in the sand at low tide.... Or, men make plans, God laughs!

Mexicans can have such a simple but amazing creativity, a palm frond wind vane done for the city malacon.

Alain, yes, La Costa's Valentine night special a full dinner with dessert and a glass of wine a choice of chicken Marsala or lasagna, (300 pesos each and a great band) my chicken was great and Dana thought the lasagna was one of the best ever. We will go over again on a regular menu night and I...

We went out to Valentine's dinner at a nearby restaurant tonight, covered but open to the bay, beautiful sunset. They had a nice band playing for dancing, we hear so many great guitarists down in Mexico, this band was 2 guitars and a drummer. They played a different arrangement of Eric Clapton's...

How lucky is it that we are tied up ahead of a big boat with a tender on a floating platform! Changed out the 15?19 for the 15?21...we will see if it works out better. (Update, nope changed back!) One note of caution the newest Suzuki props need a different spacer!!!!!

The most common style of boat in Mexico the pangas are the fast, seaworthy workhorses of the sea.

A while ago someone asked how common Suzuki\'s are in Mexico, they are a large part of the market here especially on the pangas. Yamaha must be pricing themselves out of the market as I am seeing mostly older ones along with a mix of Hondas. The Sea is very salty and after a run huge salt...