Where feet may fail, seahorse V

Well " change of plans" we left la Paz and are anchoring off Bahai San Gabriel. Marina life has its advantages but they can be short lived. Once the laundry is done the food is stocked and the boat maintenance has been worked on, well time to go. We stayed for 9 days, needed about 3. On the anchor its quite, and family oriented. Don't get me wrong, a social network is nessary . The men need to discuss...lol...God only knows what, the stuff the women are sick of hearing, and the women need to generally vent and affirm that they are not alone in the feelings and struggles that maybe their husbands find to be futile complaints.
The anchorage reminds us that we are on the same page and we HAVE to work together if this whole experience has a chance of success.
Wow, went up to Caleta Partida, what a pleasure. A perfectly sheltered passage between 2 islands, with a beautiful bay like opening, to anchor in. Surprisingly when we jumped off our dingy to explore the white sand beach, about 2 minutes into our walk thousands of crabs began to scatter. Of course I screamed, and Billy assured me that these bubbler crabs with their one claw we not to be feared. He had just learned all about them on our planet earth movie a couple nights ago. He then proceeded with the help of grace of course, to explain to me why and how they make all these sand balls on the beach. Volcanic rock large and small can be seen around the outer edges of the beach from the extinct volcano thousands of years ago. We will stay here for a few days and try to absorb as much as we can of this paradise.
Few days on the sea of Cortez and I'm sold, sun, silence, great beaches and oh ya --fishing-- yuppie. Yesterday, 3 trigger fish, 1 barracuda ( though very small) and my favorite Sierra and yes I am responsible for 2 catches, we had a great fish dinner and a bag for the freezer.
A rediculously rough 4 hour passage up the sea to another anchorage. It was like going through the washing machine the whole trip. Tired out, but happy to not be moving, isla San Francisco, wow what a place. We hiked up to a picturesque view and later tried to fish but no success .
Left after 2 days and headed to mazatlan, 38 hours later we arrived! el cid what a treat. Again many friends and a great time. We stayed 2 days
Longer then planned and still it was hard to pull away, if we had know the weather would have been so beautiful we would have planned Christmas in mazatlan but as time was ticking along we had to move out and on.
16 hours and we reach the bird sanctuary on isla Isabella. I survived, not my favorite being surrounded by thousands of nesting frigget birds the size of taradacto dinosaurs but for the sake of my children..all three , I endured it. The weather is already getting warmer morning was dry and hot. After a few hours sleep we will leave tonight at midnight and in 16 hours we will arrive in peurto vallarta..
Instead, we left at 3 in the afternoon, reached San blast at 11 pm had a reasonable sleep and took off at 6 am for la Cruz . Night watch this time was the worst so far charts were old and less accurate and panga boats along with fishing boats meant for tons of water traffic, ended up being more than I could handle, which led to the anchoring over night.
Here at paradise village let the Christmas fun begin.