Sailing Aboard Steady Beat: La Cruz and north to Mazatlan

So we spent a week in La Cruz enjoying the cheap marina fees, the movies (I had to see Confessions of a shopaholic), Domino's pizza and the company of our friends on Follow You, Follow Me who were waiting for the arrival of their last crew member before sailing off to the South Pacific Ocean.

Allan, Rena, Dalia and Justin

We sailed up to Dalia's favorite beach town,Chacala, on Tuesday morning where we met up with Lovely Reta and Meerkat for a hike up the hill to see some goats and lots of boogie boarding at the beach. After 4 days at Chacala we left at sunset to do an overnight passage to Isla Isabel.

Heather, Debby, John and Justin overlooking Bahia Chacala

We arrived at Isla Isabel at 9 in the morning on Dalia's champagne birthday (she turned 28 on March 28th), finally found an spot to anchor and made english muffins for breakfast. We napped and enjoyed the sunset. Justin did the dishes (as a gift to Dalia on her special day), made a wonderful chocolate cake and yummy pizza for dinner. This was the most low key Birthday Dalia has had since her 18th.....but on the other hand it was the most exotic birthday since her sweet 16th in Budapest and Prague. Not many people can say that they celebrated their champagne birthday on their honeymoon with whales and blue footed boobies off a island in Mexico....it was memorable.

Champagne Birthday!

We left Isla Isabel in the morning of the 31st of March and arrived at Marina Mazatlan in time for the morning cruisers net on April fools day. Right now we are researching the crossing to Hawaii and preparing the boat for such a crossing. Not a lot to be done, a few minor fix up things to be done before we sail for Baja and on to the Sea of Cortez and eventually for Hawaii. We have discussed the crossing with a couple of other cruisers and we are getting psyched for such an adventure. More to come in the next few days.....