Life in La Paz, Mexico

Life in La Paz is easy, days full of swimming with whale sharks and eating street tacos, nights filled with eating street tacos and good beer, and finally ending with melodic music drifting down to your bed through the open hatch boards. After the open roadstead anchorages of Western Baja and the wild and crazy lifestyle of Cabo San Lucas, La Paz is a welcome change of pace and a fantastic place to get settled into life in Baja for the cruising sailor.

We spent almost three weeks exploring the sights of La Paz. And to think when we arrived we told people we would be gone in one. In cruising, changing plans is a way of life, plans are formed and reformed as fluidly and as often as the waves strike our hulls. We met some of our closest cruising friends in La Paz. Some of whom we would spend the majority of our summer in the Sea of Cortez anchored next to in the same harbors.

Swimming with whale sharks a dinghy ride away

Swimming with whale sharks a dinghy ride away

Sculptures on the malecon

Sculptures on the malecon

Sculptures on the malecon

Sculptures on the malecon

Sculptures on the malecon

Sculptures on the malecon

Flute lessons put on by our friends on s/v Orion

Flute lessons put on by our friends on s/v Orion

Roadside shrine

Roadside shrine

Roadside shrine

Roadside shrine

Exploring the mountains in sierra la laguna

Exploring the mountains in sierra la laguna

Typical street menu, changes often

Typical street menu, changes often

Fish taco meal

Fish taco meal

La Paz malecon at night from Resolute

La Paz malecon at night from Resolute

Enjoying the benefits of a few nights at a marina

Enjoying the benefits of a few nights at a marina

Beautiful street art around the city

Beautiful street art around the city

Beautiful street art around the city

Beautiful street art around the city

Beautiful street art around the city

Beautiful street art around the city

Beautiful street art around the city

Beautiful street art around the city

Beautiful street art around the city

Beautiful street art around the city

Cascade 36 no longer for sale

I’ll introduce you to our new boat. Her name is Resolute. She is a finicky girl with a young heart and a strong weathered body. She was born in Portland, Oregon in 1975, 36 feet long, 13,000 pounds.  She is a Cascade Yacht who has spent the last nine years circumnavigating the globe. As our yacht broker so eloquently put it, she’s proven.

She has not the flash of a new polished Jeanneau, but she carries herself in a way that says, “I can cross that ocean, can you?” There are many projects to keep us busy over the next few months and I will be trying to document most of them here on the blog. My Dad has flown in to San Francisco to help out while the boat is being pulled out of the water for bottom paint and new thru hulls, etc. So busy busy is the buzz.

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The brokers motoring her in for the survey

 

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First views of the under belly

 

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In the slings for the survey

 

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View from the top of the mast

 

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Interior