November, 2nd, Bahia Santa Maria. Tuesday.  N24 degrees 46 minutes, West 112 degrees 15 minutes

We’re set to start tomorrow, the last leg of the trip South.  We should be in Cabo in about two days.  We’ve had a delightful time here in Bahia Santa Maria hiking, swimming, watching sunrise and sunset from the cockpit with our morning coffee and evening sundowners.

After Cabo, the trip changes.  Ann, Diane and Jansen have to go back to their other life while Geoff and I will continue cruising a while up into the Sea of Cortez to La Paz and then retrace our route back up the Baja Peninsula and ultimately San Francisco by mid-December.  We’re particularly interested in seeing these stops in their more natural condition with essentially no-one around.  We’ll keep these posts up via shortwave radio (thank you so much to my friend April for managing these – I’m going to owe you when I get back), but the tone will no doubt change as one adventure and group of friends changes to another.

By the way, before I sign off, I just want to mention that while cooking huevos rancheros tonight for dinner, I managed a Benihana, spatula double flip over the shoulder, catch.  It was brilliant.  It is on film so will be immortalized once we get internet access.  Yes, it was THAT amazing.

The next two posts are crew perspective of this stop, so here goes: