.: The Islands surrounding La Paz

Our wonderful time in La Paz and the surrounding Islands has come to an end. We have just enjoyed 10 days out in the Islands where we were at quiet anchorages, did some hiking and lots of swimming and snorkelling (including swimming with wild sea lions again at their rookery). The focus during this time was on our Spanish study and we were pretty diligent spending about 6 –8 hours each day on it. School at anchor is a lot more fun though than a classroom!

We returned on Sunday for 2 more in-school sessions and to do our final running around – including ordering a new alternator, ordering a self-steering system and ordering some heavy-duty shades for both the cockpit and the foredeck. These will all be brought down at various times with friends and family that are visiting us over the next few months. We also got our FM3 Visa which allows us to stay up to a year in Mexico.

Chillin with the sunset! Beautiful anchorages all to ourselves. I'm

swimming back to the boat.

Our grocery shop was the largest ever yesterday as we are heading north today for about 3 – 4 weeks in the Sea of Cortez in even more remote areas. Hence the reason Peter made his first ever loaf of bread! This will all be new cruising territory for us, which we are excited about. We will be out of internet range, so will not be updating the blog until around the middle of July.

Although we are having a blast, we are missing out on events back home…..including the exciting arrival of our great nephew Keaton (isn’t that a great name?) delivered to Carlin and our nephew Matthew (Dorothy & Peter’s son). One of my oldest friends Lynda Jones also had a quiet wedding in Tofino to Duncan. We are sending our congratulations and love to all of you!!!!! See photos on the sidebar.

Peter's first loaf of bread Di working hard too, ha,ha.

We are really excited that Kylie will be arriving on August 2nd – August 27th and Ryan is also coming on August 2- 10th. We are keeping our fingers crossed that Danny can also get the week off work as well (no pressure Danny….really….we’d just love to have you here). It’s too bad that Tara moves in to her very own house then, or we could all be onboard at the same time…however, a HUGE congratulations to Tara, Mark and Kieran on their new “nest”.

Until next time…..”What you do speaks so loudly, I cannot hear what you say” Ralph Waldo Emerson.