Whata Difference a Bay Makes!!!

We arrived 180 nm's NW of Cabo today, Tuesday at sunrise, in our favorite deserted anchorage, Bahia Santa Maria, outside of Mag Bay.  No Sea-Doos here baby!  Just a small fishing village who love to barter with us gringos for their commodity...fish and lobster.  We are in hog heaven right now, and it is a good thing because according to the weather gurus, South Trail with be here for a few days while some Gale's blow down the Baja coastline...

Our Bash out of Cabo was not the trauma inducing experience we were stealing ourselves for.  Once again, Capt. Craig picked a great window to weigh anchor and get outta Cabo.  We left the anchorage at 10am on Sunday.  We rounded Cabo Falso with no major head wind or seas.  It was choppy and we were only doing about 3.5 knots, but it was very doable.  The afternoon blow which is typical was very mild.  We saw nothing over 14 knots during the whole passage.

The worst part of heading uphill in a boat like ours, is that you have to get used to the fact that you will most likely be averaging less nautical miles per hour than you have been used to the entire cruising season!  I think it is more of a trauma psychologically than physically.  We just kept thinking the whole passage, "shouldn't we be further along by now?"   You are beating and the wind is in your face and the boat is working, but you are just not going as fast as the conditions might lead you to believe you should be.  It's a bummer for sure.  But like anything, the more you do it, the more confident you get...  We should be very confident by the time we make it back up to Ventura!

Time to relax, get some sleep and enjoy these bugs for dinner tonight!

We are hoping to leave on our most challenging leg, the middle bight of Baja up to Turtle Bay, on Friday depending on the weather gurus instructions.  There are a couple of possible anchorages in between that we may have to stop at due to necessity.  Stay tuned for more bash updates!....

Fair winds to all on your own life passages...