More Mexico

Tags: Baja, Mexico, sailing

Date: March 9, 2025

After dropping Maria off in La Paz, we spent a few days in town getting new provisions, doing laundry etc. It was time for our next visit of the season. Ane and Trond Einar were coming to visit from Trondheim, Norway, and we prepared well for the visit:

Obviously, there was also some food :-D

We were picking Ane and Trond Einar up in Puerto Escondido like we had done with Maria, so we slowly made our way north from La Paz while scouting out some nice new anchorages for our guests to enjoy.

We stopped for quite a few days at Los Gatos where we met up with Randy and some friends on Randonnée. We also had time to go on a hike in the dry landscape:

The beach at Los Gatos:

"Los Gatos" means "The Cats" in Spanish but we don't know why the bay is called that. In any case it is a very popular anchorage due to the red, rounded rock formations:

If you zoom in on the picture above, you can see Félicie standing on the rocks and get an idea of the scale of it all.

The new moon over the mountains:

We don't have may photos from the visit with Ane ans Trond Einar — we were too busy eating and drinking all that beer :-D

However, on the last day as we were approaching La Paz this playful fellow came by the boat and stayed for almost half an hour:

We have never seen a sea lion behave like this before — dolphins do it all the time but usually sea lions more or less ignore the boat.

We dropped our guests off in La Paz and did a last provisioning at the supermarkets in town before heading north again.

At the anchorage at San Marte we met Harry, a young free diver on a solo kayaking trip from Loreto to La Paz. After arriving at San Marte he went out with his harpoon and caught a large yellowtail jack:

The fish was too large for him to eat and since he was in a kayak he did not have any way of storing it, so he offered it to us and he even filetted it for us! We were very happy and invited him for sashimi and beer that evening. There was enough fish to put several bags in the freezer and we even gave three bags of fish away to the people in the neighboring sailboat.