Isla Coronados – Highly Recommended by Others, With Good Reason!

The Consolation Sail – What to do with 6 weeks worth of food on board.
We left La Paz on Saturday, 7 April and spent our first night in Caleta Partida. The southbound wind was terrific and continuing the next day, it pushed us past Isla San Francisco to San Evaristo. The night was a bit bumpy there. Leaving the next day we stopped at Los Gatos which was quite comfortable and then Aqua Verde, also comfortable, but IMHO a bit over-rated and very busy with beach campers, local pangas and a lot of boats.

The Mooring Field – Puerto Escondido – 30 KTs coming through.

In anticipation of a big blow we pulled into Puerto Escondido the following day. And blow, it did. The marina and mooring field filled up with boats hoping to avoid the big North wind. Inside the marina, wind speeds were 25 to 30 knots at time which made life on a mooring ball challenging. Getting into the dock was difficult and wet. We were at the dock, so not a big deal. While there we visited Loreto and then a mission up in the hills, built in the 1600’s. San Xavier was built by the Jesuits around a spring and the location is impressive. When the wind was down to manageable levels we planned to make our way from Puerto Escondido on Monday.

Punta Colorado – Isla Carmen – Nice

Leaving the harbour we encountered much stronger winds than forecast so we changed our minds, but then changed them back again, and ended up in Punta Colorado. Winds were up in the 20’s for part of the trip. The anchorage was very bumpy but we did see a Big Horn sheep on the beach in the morning. We left there for Salinas and just about when we thought it was time to turn on the engine, the wind picked up, but on the nose. Even with up to 24 kts of wind it took us about 5 hours to travel to Salinas, 10nm away. We traveled a total of 24nm to get there. Today we left Salinas, which was terrific – big, open and not more than 2 other boats while we were there. So we spent two nights there before leaving for Isla Colorado, where we are today. It was a motor boat ride the whole way. Big wind predicted for tomorrow so we could be here for a couple of days.