Our hope for traveling down the west coast of Baja was to experience some of the more remote parts of Mexico, and Islas San Benito are about as remote as one can find on (or near) the Baja peninsula. The three small islands that make up Islas San…

While we loved the tacos and new friends in Ensenada, we were eager to get back out to sea again to begin poking around some of the more remote parts of Baja. We delayed our scheduled departure from the marina in Ensenada by two days to be sure…

We really let this blog languish while we spent a couple happy months sailing 775 miles down the west coast of Baja, around the tip of the peninsula into the Sea of Cortez, north 200 miles to Agua Verde for Christmas, and south again to La Paz. We’ll…

Until late September, we didn’t have much clarity about the general trajectory of the first few months of our adventure. Our master-sketch of our trip looked somewhat like a spiderweb across the Pacific, a choose-your-own adventure of possibilities that in some final form might resemble a clockwise loop.…

We’ll always remember the three happy weeks we spent between Santa Barbara and the Channel Islands as The Mariners Post Season. We’re fair weather baseball fans at best, but watched every game of the 2025 ALDS and ALCS from loud sports bars, quiet one-boat anchorages and, at least…

I appreciate a little subjectivity in cruising guidebooks, so I love the Dreamspeaker series which includes hand-drawn charts of most of the anchorages in the Salish Sea with notes on where to find rope swings and blackberry bushes. Now that we’re outside Dreamspeaker territory, I find myself Googling…