We left off in San Diego which I know was a really long time ago, but here's Katy's take on the journey from there:
Leaving San Diego was so amazing. Boats everywhere, supposedly there were 180 boats signed up but 140 actually made it out there. Then on the way down to Tortuga (Turtle) Bay the numbers dropped again. One boat was said to be so seasick they just turned around and went back. Anyhow, two hours or so from San Diego and we were in Mexico, within two days we were in Tortuga Bay. Not known for turtles any more but incredibly beautiful, ravaged by the hurricane at the end of the summer, the houses were just skeletons… the all cement tourist bar was still standing, alongside some houses and the grocery store. Mexico has been an interesting example of putting tourism before so much else, but more about that later. So we spent a night there drinkin cheap beer, tequila and buying every type and color of pepper at the grocery store. Then we sailed south to Bahia Santa Maria, one of the most beautiful places we have ever seen in our lives. Unfortunately we left the camera on board, something we will be kickin ourselves for along time. The bay looks large yet there are these massive rocks that lay just under the water line. The rocks that poke outta the water are great swimming and fishing spots, crab, lobster and birds everywhere. Dolphins were swimming and jumping in the wake of our dinghy and this was the closest we got to actually touching one. On the trip down the entire coast all different types of porpoises would come out and swim just under and around our boat, but it wasn’t until Mexico that three would show up and then their whole family and friends would come and flirt and play with us. One night they came up to the boat and it looked like dolphins in space with the phosphorescence trails behind them as they jumped, spun and guided us into the harbor.
In Bahia Santa Maria we camped on the beach in a mangrove forest that had the tiniest seashells and sand dollars everywhere. This was after we hiked a peak that looked out over the peak that protected the harbor where numerous sunken ships lay, sand dunes for a few miles that lead to a bay on the other side of a small peninsula, and a mangrove forest next to the loveliest and most desolate beach we had seen. It was amazing, some friends of ours told us that on another point they found a can where a spam and egg sandwich was advertised on the front. The can also said that the sammy was so easy to eat, like on a scale of 1 being watching TV and a 10 making a TV it was like a 2. These guys were on the boat Gypsy and were totally rad, Justin the captain was a young guy going to Nicaragua to be an engineer and wanted us to charter his boat, a Newport 30. Chad and Eddie were his buds and super skiers from Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Anyhow, on the way down from the peak we saw numerous cacti in bloom, colors and textures unknown to our imaginations till then. Then we almost walked right into this CRAZY spider web with the coolest spider ever! Its body was like 1.5cm wide and 2.5cm long and with it’s legs was at least 2 or so inches wide. The belly was like a zebra, white with black stripes and this pattern followed its legs, but the back was like a white turtle shell with a crazy black transformersesque design, so totally RAD! We kicked it on the beach and drank brews and held foot races with another sweet crew from the boat Banyon. This is another young guy who has toured the world surfing and water poloing and sells film footage of all kinds of things to major TV corporations. His two super cool dude friends and finally Kim, a super badass rad chick. They surfed everywhere and had cameras all over their boat.
Sailed down to Cabo San Lucas where the coastline is beautiful, so much of the Baja coast is really dessert like and dry rocky mountains. The hurricane dropped off a ton of water but you only really notice tiny cacti and trees when you’re hiking around. The rocks outside of Cabo are stunning, big arches and then there is this booming city/suburbia sprawl all around it. Cabo was madness, super Americanized and blatant plagiarism of everything we were trying to get away from. Super expensive glow-in-the-dark drinks that make cotton tops dance on tables and playing the worst radio jams with neon spider mans staring you down next to the cardboard cut out Hulk. LAME SAUCE, so we wandered the street with the Gypsy boys and drank tequila and found a mall with the entire upstairs floor undeveloped. So much of Cabo was store fronts with nothing behind it, and the biggest cockroaches, and fruit cups with spicy sauce on it (extra tasty) for $1 and the list goes on. We couldn’t wait to leave and the LunaSea was heading north to tour the Sea of Cortez. I am sure that Las Paz and that sea is incredible, but we lucked out and got on a 64ft. catamaran Profligate. This boat is owned by Richard and Dona, he started Latitude 38 and is one of the coolest dudes ever. Loves to surf, chill, write and sail spinnakers that made the boat go 12knots in 3.5knot wind
I have to go meet Katy on la playa por un margarita. Mas mañana. Hasta luego.
Leaving San Diego was so amazing. Boats everywhere, supposedly there were 180 boats signed up but 140 actually made it out there. Then on the way down to Tortuga (Turtle) Bay the numbers dropped again. One boat was said to be so seasick they just turned around and went back. Anyhow, two hours or so from San Diego and we were in Mexico, within two days we were in Tortuga Bay. Not known for turtles any more but incredibly beautiful, ravaged by the hurricane at the end of the summer, the houses were just skeletons… the all cement tourist bar was still standing, alongside some houses and the grocery store. Mexico has been an interesting example of putting tourism before so much else, but more about that later. So we spent a night there drinkin cheap beer, tequila and buying every type and color of pepper at the grocery store. Then we sailed south to Bahia Santa Maria, one of the most beautiful places we have ever seen in our lives. Unfortunately we left the camera on board, something we will be kickin ourselves for along time. The bay looks large yet there are these massive rocks that lay just under the water line. The rocks that poke outta the water are great swimming and fishing spots, crab, lobster and birds everywhere. Dolphins were swimming and jumping in the wake of our dinghy and this was the closest we got to actually touching one. On the trip down the entire coast all different types of porpoises would come out and swim just under and around our boat, but it wasn’t until Mexico that three would show up and then their whole family and friends would come and flirt and play with us. One night they came up to the boat and it looked like dolphins in space with the phosphorescence trails behind them as they jumped, spun and guided us into the harbor.
In Bahia Santa Maria we camped on the beach in a mangrove forest that had the tiniest seashells and sand dollars everywhere. This was after we hiked a peak that looked out over the peak that protected the harbor where numerous sunken ships lay, sand dunes for a few miles that lead to a bay on the other side of a small peninsula, and a mangrove forest next to the loveliest and most desolate beach we had seen. It was amazing, some friends of ours told us that on another point they found a can where a spam and egg sandwich was advertised on the front. The can also said that the sammy was so easy to eat, like on a scale of 1 being watching TV and a 10 making a TV it was like a 2. These guys were on the boat Gypsy and were totally rad, Justin the captain was a young guy going to Nicaragua to be an engineer and wanted us to charter his boat, a Newport 30. Chad and Eddie were his buds and super skiers from Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Anyhow, on the way down from the peak we saw numerous cacti in bloom, colors and textures unknown to our imaginations till then. Then we almost walked right into this CRAZY spider web with the coolest spider ever! Its body was like 1.5cm wide and 2.5cm long and with it’s legs was at least 2 or so inches wide. The belly was like a zebra, white with black stripes and this pattern followed its legs, but the back was like a white turtle shell with a crazy black transformersesque design, so totally RAD! We kicked it on the beach and drank brews and held foot races with another sweet crew from the boat Banyon. This is another young guy who has toured the world surfing and water poloing and sells film footage of all kinds of things to major TV corporations. His two super cool dude friends and finally Kim, a super badass rad chick. They surfed everywhere and had cameras all over their boat.
Sailed down to Cabo San Lucas where the coastline is beautiful, so much of the Baja coast is really dessert like and dry rocky mountains. The hurricane dropped off a ton of water but you only really notice tiny cacti and trees when you’re hiking around. The rocks outside of Cabo are stunning, big arches and then there is this booming city/suburbia sprawl all around it. Cabo was madness, super Americanized and blatant plagiarism of everything we were trying to get away from. Super expensive glow-in-the-dark drinks that make cotton tops dance on tables and playing the worst radio jams with neon spider mans staring you down next to the cardboard cut out Hulk. LAME SAUCE, so we wandered the street with the Gypsy boys and drank tequila and found a mall with the entire upstairs floor undeveloped. So much of Cabo was store fronts with nothing behind it, and the biggest cockroaches, and fruit cups with spicy sauce on it (extra tasty) for $1 and the list goes on. We couldn’t wait to leave and the LunaSea was heading north to tour the Sea of Cortez. I am sure that Las Paz and that sea is incredible, but we lucked out and got on a 64ft. catamaran Profligate. This boat is owned by Richard and Dona, he started Latitude 38 and is one of the coolest dudes ever. Loves to surf, chill, write and sail spinnakers that made the boat go 12knots in 3.5knot wind
I have to go meet Katy on la playa por un margarita. Mas mañana. Hasta luego.
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