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Morning Coffee, Octopus Edition

18 February 2013

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Morning Coffee, Octopus Edition

I might not have found the Octopus’ Garden Cafe (El Jardín del Pulpo) in La Cruz De Huanacaxtle if it weren’t for the anemones in Monterey, Ca. I know that that’s a crazy statement but it’s true. In Monterey one morning, Eli and I were laying on our stomachs on the dock with our heads […]

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On To Bahia Magdalena–From The Backlog

16 January 2013

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On To Bahia Magdalena–From The Backlog

Bahia Magdalena is one of those places you really ought to see if you’re cruising down the Baja coast. Says so right in all the guidebooks and as it turns out, they do not lie. It’s huge, first off, and this far down, the desert starts to give way to a more tropical feel. It’s […]

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Turtles All The Way Down

10 January 2013

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Turtles All The Way Down

Turtle Bay gets its name from the turtles that used to cruise the waters, before they all got hunted into oblivion. The shape of it is kind of Tortuga-ish as well. Makes me think that one of the great ancient turtles who carry the world upon their shells maybe passed on one day and all […]

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Down Tortuga Way

8 January 2013

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Down Tortuga Way

Coming down the coast of Baja, our internet connection was mostly cruddy, which pretty much ruled out blog updates. Even with the Telcel dongle, we found ourselves generally without a reliable connection. In Turtle Bay, it took days and days to pay for our fuel, because the town’s cell signal was kaput and the fuel […]

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Cabo San Zoocas

20 December 2012

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We had a quick trip down to Cabo from Bahia Magdalena. Quite a shock leaving a tiny fishing village of about 150 people and then pulling in here. It’s like Disneyland but the main characters aren’t Mickey and Minnie, they’re beer and tequila! We’ll get caught up with some good posts soon, we haven’t had […]

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Off Again!

8 December 2012

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After self-inflicted food poisioning caused a delay and a self inflicted minor concussion caused a second delay, we’re finally departing for Magdalena Bay. At that point we’ll be about 80% of the way down the Baja coast and only an overnighter away from Cabo. Excited and scared and well prepared.

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On Leaving Ensenada

7 December 2012

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On Leaving Ensenada

A good steady wind combs the grey cotton wool clouds into a smooth wispy mass that knits itself together pretty well, only showing thin in a few spots, with stars shining through. It’s coming on 9 at night and the fat November moon keeps climbing higher in the sky, dragging her mantle of stars and […]

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Chester The Molester

4 December 2012

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While we were hanging out in Ensenada, we became friendly with a neighbor who, honestly—gave off kind of weird vibes from the moment we met him. A couple of other families with kids also got a strange feeling about him and independent of each other, we all came to the conclusion that he was likely […]

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We Are Not Alone…

3 December 2012

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We arrived in Turtle Bay a few days ago. Much to our surprise there was a strong Morro Bay contingent already present. Jim McWilliams and Ellie on Timoneer, Manny and Lola on Desire (?) and the old Virg’s Fishing boat Shirlee Too were all here at anchor! Seriously, out of about a dozen boats, a […]

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Well, We Made It!

28 November 2012

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I guessed it would take 51 hours to Turtle Bay, it took 52 to travel the 308 miles. I lost 6 big fish, caught one 15# Dorado. The last big fish broke the tip of my pole, then broke the remaining eyelets off, broke the pole in the middle and finally broke the line. The […]

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