11/19/2009, Kino bay
We were on our way from the south end of Tiburon to an estuary up north and decided we might as well stop for dinner. Well, like any visit to town we got comfortable having internet and eating fresh fruit and waiting around for buses that never showed up, and here we are two days later. We are still headed north However and I do have a bunch of posts about Isla Tiburon and the islands we have been around for the past week, but the internet is too slow for me to be able to upload any photos right now so I will save those posts and publish them in 5 more days or so when i get to an internet Cafe. If you have been watching our location on the realtime tracking link it is worth mentioning that the map is wildly inaccurate and does not contain the biggest island in the gulf. In order to get a better idea of where we are: switch the map to satellite mode in the top left when you are viewing it.
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11/10/2009, Kino Sonora
Arrived at Kino station late Monday night and settled in to some hot showers, washing machines and nice cots on land to sleep on. The Prescott College marine conservation class is here for the semester and they have been sharing their food with us and generally providing pleasant company. Zak and I have set to work ridding the boat of the many extra items that we brought with us thinking we would need but really just take up precious space on Sula. We have almost two full dinghy loads full of stuff that we will be leaving here as we explore the midriff islands. The sail repair is being done by hand since we were unsuccessful at finding someone with a heavy duty sewing machine close by.
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11/09/2009
After hearing two favorable weather reports on the single side band radio nets we set north from San Pedro Martir headed for Kino station. shortly after leaving the anchorage conditions built to 15 to 20 knots out of the north west which was unexpected but welcome as it allowed us to sail at a good clip on the exact heading we were trying to make. As we came up on the south end of Isla Tiburon we started to get wind and wave effect quickly building out of the north where conditions are funneled down the eastern shore of Tiburon. This is where things started to get a little crazy. Just as the sun was setting to a moonless night we started to get some of the steepest seas I have ever seen. We had a reef in the Mainsail and were just talking about switching to a smaller jib when we lost the foot of the main and tore the sail at two of the reef points. After switching to full storm sails we continued to beat into a furious sea sometimes taking waves right into the cockpit and sometimes riding up waves so steep it felt like we were climbing a vertical wall. Needless to say it was a relief to arrive at Kino and row ashore to some warm showers and dry beds.
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11/08/2009, San pedro Martir
arrived at sunrise after sailing through the night at a volcanic island inhabited by Sea Lions and birds aplenty.
Sorry about the shaky camera work and poor quality of this video but if you sit through it you can see the awesome flock fishing techniques of the Blue footed Boobies and hear the Sea Lions in the background making lots of noise.
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11/06/2009, Santa Rosalia
Santa Rosalia Looks like it will be our last major town until Kino Bay, so we are restocking some staple fresh food items like eggs and onions and getting the last of our internets done. As usual the realtime tracking link lower left will show our daily position and the current position link will show the positions of Pictures and posts.
Santa Rosalia is an old mining town settled by the french. all of the buildings in the downtown area are built of wood imported from France by the schooners that were picking up copper on their return voyages. The local church is of prefab steel construction and was designed by Carl Gustaf Eiffel and was displayed next to his tower at the Paris Exposition in 1889 before being shipped over here. This whole town has a very unique feel architecturally and yet still succeeds in being distinctly Mexican which is really cool. So far we haven't taken any pictures that I feel properly capture the ambiance but you can always explore other peoples photos of Santa Rosalia on Flickr if you are curious.
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11/06/2009, Isla San Marcos
Zak took a total guess at what might be a good research site and stopped at a little rock outcropping off of the south end of Isla San Marcos and had what was easily the best underwater adventures so far this trip. Sea caves and unexpected beaches, hordes of fish, all sorts of features to explore. Click any of the pictures below for a larger veiw.
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