I LIED, NOT GOING NORTH YET

Before leaving La Paz we reprovisioned the boat, pop is available by the can or two liter but it is rare to find 6 packs or 12 packs, I bought all 4 6 packs I found at one store and the cracker slection is non existant, saltines are the big thing here, they do have Ritz but they taste like a cross between Ritz and saltines, chips and dips are also nonexistant. In San Diego I thought that I had stocked the boat with snacks, crackers and pop for a couple of months supply but we had done in 2 1/2 cases of Pepsi and all our snacks in three weeks
We won't be heading north for a few days. We went out to the Islands for a few days and anchored in a bay by ourselves, no other boats for three days, explored the coves with the dinghy, walked the beach, climbed the cliffs, beachcombed, skinnydipped or at our age maybe we chunky dunked, moved to a larger bay with about 6 other boats, explored that with the dinghy, had dinner with some friends on their boat, fished a little, no luck but had something take a chunk out of a wood lure without biting down on the hook. The fun part was cleaning out the holding tank when we had head problems, clothspin on the nose and rubber gloves, whoopee.
One of our friends headed north and another headed back to La Paz, we stayed 2 more days and about 6 or 7 sailboats came in looking for a hidy hole because we heard the wind was going to pick up to 20 to 30 kts over the weekend, we had run out of propane so we headed back to La Paz for propane, some protection from the wind and wireless internet (and I use that term lightly) you notice I did not say hi speed, at this marina it's like two cans and a string, it's slower than dial up so I won't be putting any pictures on this time. We have lots of nice pics of sandy beaches, turquiose water and beautiful sunsets. I trolled on the way back to La Paz and caught a nice 26" to 30 " darado (mahi mahi) and it spit the hook out at the swim step when I was getting ready to gaff it.
When we got into the marina I changed oil, filters, and some of the fuel filters on both engines and the gen set since I had about 300 HRS on since the last change, dropped off the propane bottle and filled out endless forms for coming back into a port, I tell you, the Mexican govrenment could keep Oregon's logging industry going at full steam just to supply them with the paper for their paperwork, and fees, oh yes, fees, out at the Island the Park Police came by all of the boats and collected a fee for a yearly "park pass" so we can anchor at their wildlife park, $20 per person--it's an uninhabitable cinder cone Island with blue tarp fishermans shacks on the shore, he says but it's only $20 per year, some of the American parks are $20 per day, I said yes but we have Park Rangers, interpretive centers, museums, improved trails, picnic areas, docks, AND restrooms! What are we getting besides a sandy bottom to drop our anchor on, he just looked at me sheepishly and said you get a commemrative coin with your park pass, I said gracias as he moved off to the next boat to collect their fee.
Oh well, tomarrow we go by imagraition because the marina noticed that imagraition in Ensanada did not stamp LaVon's visa when we checked into Mexico. Then we will go in search of beef that is not sliced so thin that it only has one side and for pop and crackers, bread and for vinager to clean the salt out of the toilet bowls. It's amazing that the vinager just disolves the salt in secounds. Boating in salt water is a whole different ball game, I had new zinc's put on in Dana Point and some of them need to be replaced again plus I need to dive on the boat to clean the bottom and scouer the props with a stainless steel pad to get the barnacales off and then scrape the rudders to clean the marine growth off of them.
As soon as the weather settles down we will head north to other "parks" and enjoy the sun and sand.
Well the spell check won't work so you will have to deal with my phunny phonitic spelling!