Sculptured visit

Puerto Los Cabos, BCS, Mexico

We had a nice, uneventful cruise along the southern edge of the Baja peninsula - the Mexican military types hanging around in Cabo San Lucas bay did not seem too concerned about us.  After a quick stop at the fuel dock in Cabo San Lucas, we motored out into very light winds for about 2 hours before doing some very slow-motion sailing for another 2 hours.  The winds, what there were of them, were strangely enough coming from the SE, almost exactly opposite of what I though was predicted or normal for this time of year.  So we were mostly broad-reaching at about 2.5 to 3 knots in less than 6 knots of wind.  Fortunately we only had to cover a distance of about 18 miles.  As we got within a couple of miles of our destination, the winds shifted until we were close-hauled for the last 1/2 hour - we were having difficulty exceeding 2 knots in those conditions.  Finally, we doused the sails and motored into the Puerto Los Cabos Resort and Marina at around 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

This is a new development and is not really all here yet.  The advertised resort, complete with pools, gardens, restaurants and other facilities does not actually exist.  A lot of the marina is here though, and they appear to be taking a page out of the Cabo San Lucas marina management book when it comes to prices.  We had to pay $2.00 per foot for a 50-foot slip, plus taxes - a little bit cheaper than Cabo, but not a lot.

The landscaping is really quite bizarre.  All around the man-made marina basin there runs a path with lots of beautiful flowers and cactus and other plants, with regularly spaced statuary and very professional posters of works of art, or photographs of artists, complete with biographical explanations.  On a hill overlooking the entire project is a huge sculpture of a cross.  This place will be really spectacular someday, if they ever finish it.

We took a walk today into the nearby town of San Jose del Cabo, only about 1-1/4 miles along a fairly new road.  The town was great.  Very pretty place offering both tourist-oriented venues such as the "art" district, and a lot of more genuine small-town Mexico too.  We managed to find the public market and buy up some produce to get us through the next couple of days.

Now back on the boat, we are gearing up to leave for a lengthy passage to Mazatlan, across the entrance of the Sea of Cortez, and on to the mainland coast - almost due east of our current position.  Since it is a distance of about 180 miles, it is too far for us to do on a single overnight passage, and a bit short for a 2-night passage, so we have decided we will leave around noon and plan on averaging no more than about 4 knots.  This should allow us to stretch to trip over 2 nights and hopefully allow us to sail a large portion of it, instead of having to motor all the way to meet a deadline as so often seems to happen to us.  Our plan is to arrive in Mazatlan sometime on Friday morning.

 

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