Baja Terminado

Welcome back friends. Apparently 2009 was not a great year for blogging. None-the-less there were some worthwhile events that have escaped notice. It also occurs to me that I left off with the Baja trip a little abruptly. So allow me to wrap up that story and then over the next few posts briefly highlight some worthwhile events over 2009.

Conception Bay

Taking a shift at the helm

Mike and the ship's dog

Motorsailing

We left San Fransicito after a restful night on board and sailed to Conception Bay. Conception Bay is a large bay with numerous fingers or coves off the main bay. It is an amazing and beautiful area with crystal clear water and sandy beaches.

Retrieving a flighty coffee carafe

You can watch a stone fall to the bottom through 30 feet of water. At night the phosphorescent plankton would glow around us as we swam and dove. After 4 days in Conception Bay, Mike and I had to leave to return to the U.S. where Mike was returning to school and I had a job in a ski shop.

Mike and I, sadly leaving the Queen for the real world

We left the Gypsy Queen in the tender hands of Lennis and Andrea and after hiking to the road we hitched a ride to Mulege and caught the bus back to San Diego.

Hitching to Mulege

squalor in Ensenada

San Diego


That pretty much finishes the Baja sailing trip. Good times, good friends. The Queen is still down there in the Sea of Cortez. All she needs is a crew . . .