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If you found this blog via a link from a cruising site ~ we did cruise Mexico on our Ocean 49 cat for a season. See the first text box on the right for links to our preparations, trip down Baja, life in Mexico, cruising and trip back up to SoCal. Unfortunately we are back to the grind in the USA...

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Tuesday 03-11-08 - Santa Maria to Punta Belcher, Magdalena Bay!

Bahia Santa Maria had HUGE swells rolling in, so there was no beach landing there!
So "Let's go to Mag Bay!"
We saw more whales as we left Santa Maria, and the guys saw a 6 to 12' hammerhead shark (the length of the shark will vary depending on who you hear the story from, and by now it will probably be a 25' hammerhead shark...)

We went through a wall of fog!We had dolphins swim with the bow in the calm water.Then we had the best whale show ever as we entered Mag Bay!

















We anchored on the South side of Punta Belcher with only one other boat nearby.
We celebrated our Mag Bay arrival with some champagne complete with mermaid decorations!








Pinky and the Meerkats even celebrated with us!We had not been off the boat / on land in over a week, so time to go to the beach!Punta Belcher used to be a whaling station back in the old days. We found some really cool "ocean things" on the beach.
Dried crabs, shark parts, shells, big squid and whale bones!
We decorated our hats with what we found.
We explored the beach and small dunes.Back to the boat for a few projects and dinner of shish-k-bobs and rice. Had some Kenwood Cabernet (courtesy of Mike & Bibiana - thank you!), some melted Trader Joe's peanut butter cups and off to bed!

2 comments:

Meghan said...

Ah, these pictures are GORGEOUS! Be careful about how much the meerkats and pink drink. We don't want to loose them overboard!

love from tahoe!

Jennifer said...

The Meerkats and Pinky are always drunk aren't they?? I am soooo jealous. I want to be on a boat drinking instead of being at home working in my jammies!!!

Hugs and Kisses!!