To conclude our year 2016 we have met a lot of wonderful people from all over the world. My battery was  dying so I could not complete the rest of our time in La Paz and the end of the year so with that being said here are a few more pictures. We also like to thank our tennis group in La Paz which we played several hours 3 days a week, great fun. By December  31, 2016 we have sailed a total of 3,467 nautical miles. we hope you have enjoyed them.

Hi again from sv Shearwater with Pati and Eric. Here are are high lights from 2016, we hope you enjoy them.Sunset in La Paz Becky, Armando, Megan, Adi and Rylie´s Visit in March 2016 was great. We took a tour over  to Lopez Mateo Magdalena Bay and pet the baby Grey Whales it was fantastic. one baby stayed around our ponga for a half an hour, for lots of petting, Wow unforgettable.







Next we took them sight seeing in La Paz and then sailed over  to Espiritu Santo for a couple of days snorkeling,paddle boarding and just having fun.




Megan and Adi
Next we sailed North Isla San Fransisco, San Evaristo, Los Gatos, Aqua Verde (one of our favorites) and stopped in Puerto Escondido (another favorite) for a while. we also loved Loreto From there we sailed North again to Isla Coronados where we hiked to the top of the extinct Volcano. From there North to San Juanico and up into the Bahia Conception and spent 4th of July. We went to several different anchorages and took a truck ride up ti the pretty little town of Mulege. At this time we were sailing with 6 other boats it was a lot of fun.

Bahia Conception

Our sailing buddies and a great Curry shrimp pot luck


Our next adventure was to sail across the Sea of Cortez to San Carlos it took  12 hours but caught some Mai Mai yum )








We spent the summer in San Carlos . we took a train ride to Copper Canyon in  August it was a great time with our friends from mv Delta Swizzler, Cindy and Mark.

















Like I said it was spectacular.
While in San Carlos we experienced our  first hurricane . Hurricane Newton came into San Carlos in the evening of Sept. 7th and blew through the night until 3.am. we had sustained 60 knots of wind in the harbor. 25 boats were blown over while in dry storage inn San Carlos and one complete dock came apart in the San Carlos Harbor. Lucky we had no damage.




We enjoyed staying in San Carlos for the summer of 2016.

From San Carlos we sailed up north to Tiburon Island, and then across the Sea again to Isla Partida then to Puerto Don Juan and Bahia De los Angeles which was a cute little town. From there we sailed north to Puerto Refugio on he northern tip of Isla Angel de la Guarda. Just 140 nautical miles south of the Colorado River Delta and end of the Sea of Cortez. Where we enjoyed snorkeling with the sea lions and scuba diving in crystal clear water.








our hitch hiker a Blue Footed  Boobie




Dolphins swimming in the bay

I must say that we were sailing around these Islands for 16 days with our buddy boats MV Delta Swizzler Cindy and Mark, SV Volarie with Vickie and Jason also NV Venture Forth with Toot´s and Phil from Australia
From there we sailed South to San Francisquito were we stayed for a couple of days. Pushing south we sailed on to Santa Rosalia which was a very cute town and i was happy to be back to civilization

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Santa Rosalia Church built by Eifel (famamous for Eifel Tower in Paris)





Cindy, Jason, Vickie Pati and Eric Mark was taking the pic

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Santa Rosalia is still an operating copper mining town.



Sailed to Punta Chivata where we found an abandon  hotel

 From there we sailed to Punta Pulpito and on to San Juanico , From there we sailed to Puerto Escondido and were glad to reunite with our good friends George and Ruth, Ed and Cindy, Patty and Rafa, Larry and Judy and so many others hard to name them all.


Terry and Dawn off sv Manta we enjoyed scuba diving with them and I caught my first Lobster also they showed us how to find swimming scallops yummy thank you!
We then sailed with some stops back to La Paz by Thanksgiving. Had a great Thanksgiving dinner at our friends house John and Linda. And enjoyed Christmas in La Paz with friends. we must say we do very much miss our Family and good friends back home.