We arrived Tuesday morning into Ensenada Harbor and back into a slip at our favorite place, Baja Naval Marina. Once again, we arrived just as our last provisions of produce from Turtle Bay were all but totally depleted, and were so very happy to back in the big city up north with all of our favorite restaurants. After giving Dover a much needed walk on the malecon, we practically ran to our favorite breakfast place, Las Cazuelitas (Little Pans) They have simply the best comida and service in town, and we "yummmmmmm"ed our way through a plate of machaca y huevos con chilaquiles rojo, the house specialty and two grande jugos naranja (fresh squeezed orange juice) So nice to take a break from cooking! After breakfast, we took in an early showing of Iron Man II. 35 pesos per person for first run movies. Have I mentioned lately how much we love Mexico?!
Our passage up from Turtle Bay was full of ups and downs, great sailing followed by barely making headway in steep seas and strongs winds. It took us four days to transit, but we stopped overnight in San Carlos and San Quintin to take much needed breaks. The Baja Bash is officially over for us even though we have a few hundred more miles to go north to Ventura. The worst is over and we don't anticipate the remaining passages to be at all difficult.
In Turtle Bay, we waited out a gale with a large group of fellow cruisers. It was very nice to connect with other people facing the same challenges. We went up to a restaurant recommended by our friend Niell and his buddy Pete, Las Palapas. The proprietors, Carlos and his wife Mercedes built this great restaurant overlooking the bay in front of their home. Pete apparently helped Carlos build the first palapa 10 years ago and they are the official Bahia Tortugas Yacht Club. Carlos showed us a photo album filled with pictures of visiting yateros and had us sign his guestbook. Due to the fact that eleven boats were stuck in the harbor for a week waiting out the gale, we all organized a party at the yacht club. Mercedes made fantastic Baja fish tacos, Chicken Pajole, and Pescado Mexicana for us and the tequilla and Negro Modelos were flowing! Great to meet some new folks, swap Bash stories, and patronize some really wonderful Bahia Tortugas folks in their beautiful place.
Looking forward to heading back out and up the hill this weekend for Dana Point and then home to Ventura!
Hi Eva and Craig,
ReplyDeleteI've been thinking of you and just now caught up on your blog. You may be back home by now? or close? You've had some amazing adventures and I'm glad you're safe.
We just sent Lillian off on an amazing adventure to Croatia, where she will be for 4 weeks with a volunteer organization. Evelyn is starting a math internship at UConn next week. Kev and I have taken a few extra days off work to spend with the girls before their various summer adventures start.
Best of luck to you getting back home,
Love, Vija