Bahia Bonanza

January 15, 2023  

On Friday, January 13^th, one month after Falcon’s birth, we finally completed all of the paperwork that we could do, and now have to wait to receive both his Canadian Passport and his Mexican Passport.  With these things completed we became free to leave La Paz, so we did a couple of grocery shopping trips, got gas, and stowed the boat ready to head out.   

La Paz is a lovely city, and it was a perfect place for giving birth to Falcon and getting his papers in order, but we had been in La Paz for over two months, and we were eager to head out and explore some new areas.   

So, on Sunday morning, January 15th, we pulled up our anchor, radioed the port captain on the VHF to tell him of our departure and of our travel plans, and headed out of the La Paz Harbour.  La Paz would still remain our base port for the next month or two as we would have to pick up Falcon’s Mexican Passport there, and we were also having his Canadian Passport mailed to a friend in La Paz.  With this in mind we were happy that there were a lot of great cruising grounds very close to La Paz, and we headed up to the Island of Espiritu Santo, which was only about 15 nautical miles away. 

Several hours later we were anchored in Bahia Bonanza on the southeast side of the island.  There were four other boats anchored up at the north end of the bay, but we anchored closer to the south end, and with a two-kilometer long beach we had the whole area to ourselves. 

Turquoise blue water, white sand beach, cactus and shrub lowlands, and crumbling red rock mountains, with a colourful sunset, it was a beautiful place. 

The beach was mainly sand, and some of it was so fine that it felt silky, while other areas were still course enough to exfoliate our feet. 

It was obvious that large waves pounded this beach at times as the sand was pushed up into steep banks in places that were covered in pieces of coral, large shells, and of course, puffer fish.  

As we were walking along the waterline Jason spotted a puffer fish right along the shore; it was swimming in and out with the waves and we wondered if this was how the puffer fish end up washed up on shore.  Was this little puffer fish dying and too weak to stay away from shore, or was this normal behaviour that perhaps ended poorly sometimes?  Either way, it sure was cute to see him so close (hopefully you could see the puffer fish in the water in the video that was attached to the blog post e-mail).