La Paz to Juncalito, take two

La Paz is certainly the best place to get anything done for your boat.  It is also home to some BIG yachts and also some WEIRD boats. 

Here is the "weird" with a funny additions to bow and stern.

As entertaining as the other boats may seem.....we were glad to get back to our trek north.

Beth and Rocky enjoying the wide open spaces, calm seas and shade.

The mountains and hills are all green due to the immense amount of rain there has been in the last half of August.

Big storms come off the mainland and dump on Baja. We have also had influence of the hurricanes that have started in south mainland Mexico and spun up and out to the northwest. We hope they keep going out to the vast Pacific Ocean but are watching the weather regularly. 

Thunderstorms pop up pretty quickly and we decided to turn around in the San Jose Channel and head a few miles back to take cover in an anchorage called San Evaristo.  It is a fishing village of about 20 families. They have a school, desalination plant and a small, small store. It is off the beaten path to say the least. There is an American couple that lives there on their boat teaching English and doing other community minded activities. The town put in a mooring ball for them.

Back to the thunderstorms, yesterday we  slowed the boat down to let a storm pass in front of us. Watching the lightening come down and hit the ocean is quite daunting and gives you pause at our smallness in the large earthly scheme.

Also en route from Bahia Agua Verde to here in Juncalito-ville near Loreto, we were surrounded by dolphins on all side and in our bow wave for about ten minutes. We were sailing at about 4 knots in 6 knots of breeze and they were enjoying it as much as we were. 

Yesterday's catch was a Bonita. Poor thing. Seemed to play dead and skip across the water for the last 100 yards. Not a good ending for him.

Well guys, it is about 95 degrees and high humidity. Come on October.....make me happy......we are so close....We have some weather  coming in today and tomorrow. After that we are on to the north again.