LA PAZ

(THE PEACE)

More than 1,000 pleasure boaters spend many months and even years home-ported in La Paz. There are four marinas and large anchorages. La Paz is the capitol city pop. 190,000 plus and has the largest harbor in the Baja California Sur. La Paz lies about 150 sea miles from Los Cabos, 130 sea miles S of Loreto. It’s across on the Baja California side of the Sea of Cortez. Mazatlan was on the mainland of the Mexican Coast. We made good time crossing over, considering that we had to steer the whole way. There will only be one move long crossing left on this trip and that will be when we make the crossing back over to the mainland again to San Carlos.

We stayed in the Marina De La Paz for a few days. We met a lot of nice cruisers. We went into town a couple of times did some shopping and had dinner. Compared to the other large cities that we have been to in Mexico we thought that the landscape here was real plain and nothing really spectacular about it. We were kind of disappointed in away. Although the cruiser network here is awesome and the place was full of cruisers considering the economy. We are real excited to get under way to sail through the Sea of Cortez islands. We can swim now and the water is real clear.