Las Hadas and Manzanillo

Dave at cento Manzanillo Market

Manzanillo Centro Market

Manzanillo City Hall

Sailfish sculpture in Manzanillo Square

Walkway to Paradise Restaurant in Las Hadas

Las Hadas Resort from Dolphin Cove Inn

Heading down the coast to Las Hadas

Las Hadas anchorage from resort pool


We arrived on 2/8.

Along the way, we had a problem with the engine and needed to tugboat with the dinghy, but made our anchorage safe and sound.

We're anchored at Las Hadas Resort, and it's so picturesque. The hillside is a morish design, and looked great from a distance, but close-up it needed work.

Dave and I went sightseeing in Manzanillo on Sunday. We had a good time just walking around cento. The market was amazing, and the port was ok.

Loren and Jerry/SOMF anchored in the same area and came and found us. We had found a good pizza restaurant. For Valentine's Day the four of us went out for pizza and beer. On Monday, Jerry, Loren and I went and reprovisioned at Walmart in Manzanillo, while Dave stayed aboard while Hugo cleaned our bottoms. After fueling and doing laundry on Tuesday, Loren and I had a couple of hours at the pool, and if I might say, it was well deserved!

We decided to do the 36 hour passage to Isla Grande with SOMF, so we pulled up the hooks, and headed out for our first buddy-boat experience.

Barra de Navidad

Cuervo at anchor in Barra Lagoon

Dave in the Grand Bay's jungle garden

Sailing out of Tenacatita

We've been in Barra for about two weeks and are getting ready to leave for Manzanillo around 2/10 or so. We've been having a great time, but there's more to see down the road before heading back north by the end of March.

Banderas Bay/La Cruz

Lucy on watch

Dave, Jan and Justin in Sayulita

Dave at Justin's surf pad in Sayulita

Chacala hillside from anchor

La Cruz square

Well, we're here and getting settled in. We think we'll be here for a few weeks. Along the way, we saw humpback whales, sea turtles, dolphins and manta rays.

San Blas

Panga village in estuary

Church in town square

Chris and Paul on svjeorgia did jungle tour

with us

Iguana sunning himself

San Blas Church in square

Jan and Dave on Jungle Tour

Fresh fish and lobster restaurant

Jan on her bicycle in town square

Dave grabbing a taco in town

Well, we arrived in San Blas on Christmas afternoon. We anchored in Matanchen Bay for the night, and moved into the marina the next day to do some projects on the boat. The square at San Blas is really cool, and is always good people watching. Met some great people, and enjoyed the simple personality of town. The jungle tour was very cool with this area having over 300 species of birds, iguanas, and even a crocodile here and there. The estuary itself was quite interesting.

We'll be leaving on Monday, 1/3/2011 to Chacala anchorage, then Punta de Mita and La Cruz in Banderas Bay in the area of Puerto Vallarta. We think we'll be anchored in La Cruz for a few weeks before we move on south. So, until then.......

Happy 2011, and MAKE THE MOST OF LIFE!

Made it to La Paz

Overlook at San Jose del Cabo

The city of La Paz from our anchorage

Jan on the Malecon in La Paz

La Paz sunset

Boobie bird stopped by while we were sailing

Sunset - Candelero Chico

Sunset - Timbabachi

Dolphin racing Cuervo

Mulege River-only fresh water river on Baja

Sunset while at sea

Well, after three weeks of sailing and anchoring in some really cool places we made it to La Paz. These are just a few photos from the Sea of Cortez and down the Baja.

Last week of living on land

Well, we finally move out of our casita and onto Cuervo on 10/15.

We've worked hard getting ready for the move, and everything that we've done really looks good. We've met some good people while living here, and alot of them are also part of the sailing community, so we'll continue to see some of them down south in La Paz and Puerto Vallarta this winter.

We hope all of you are happy and well!

S/V CUERVO..back on the water

We had a perfect launch on Tuesday, 8/31. The entire process from work yard to our mooring ball on the bay, was a total of 30 minutes, we couldn't have done any better than that, THANKS TO CAPTAIN DAVE!