It was another day of motoring from Los Muertos to Bahia Los Frailes. What wind we had was almost, but not quite on the nose. Sometimes a sailboat is nothing more than a trawler with a stick.

And no fish were caught today. After yesterday’s catch I thought our dry spell was over. I usually drag a lure or two behind the boat whenever we are underway and it is amusing to see the boat’s crew, in various states of drowsy repose, jump to the aft deck when we hear the click click click of the drag on the fishing reel. When we cross the sea to Isla Isabella, there will be plenty of time to fish.

We did see a few humpbacks in the area as we approached Cabo Pulmo. That was the highlight of the day. We never tire of seeing whales.

Bahia Los Frailes (Bay of the Friars) is just south of Cabo Pulmo National Marine park, and a popular area for diving and snorkeling. We plan on staying a couple of days, weather permitting, to snorkel the area and enjoy the abundant sea-life. Because the area is protected as a marine park, the coral here is abundant and healthy. With most of the local tourism shut down, it is quiet here. There are three other boats in the anchorage, and we see little activity on shore.

I should mention that without cell service we cannot check and approve comments. If you comment to a blog post that was made from the sat phone and it doesn’t show up within a day or so, you now know why. When we get cell service we will go in and approve your comments (unless you are a troll).

Light winds and a favorable current tamed the Cerralvo channel for us today. Still, a long day of motoring.

We broke a long dry spell when we caught a nice Spanish mackerel, presently residing in our bellies along with fresh tortillas and guacamole.

Lots of boats here at bahia de los muertos, ten, counting us. We see lots of cruisers heading north.

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Team Galapagos has finally reached escape velocity and has left La Paz. We always enjoy our time here; under normal conditions La Paz is a fun place to hang out with great walking, dining and provisioning. But these are far from normal times and so we now move on for some old fashioned social isolation.

As we slowly make our way out of Mexico, we have enabled our Iridium Go satellite hotspot. Even though the software is pretty awful, it has given us the ability to text and email with friends and family. And now we have yet another way to stay in touch with our adoring fans. This post was sent from the Sat Phone, giving us an opportunity to write from anywhere we may find ourselves. We hope you enjoy these short posts and will forgive any errors or typos; once we send out the post we have no way of seeing or correcting our mistakes until we are within cell range.

We have also enabled our new tracking page which you can find at the bottom of our blog.This gives our location and allows us to make a short comment with greater reliability than our old tracking app. Alternatively, you may bookmark this link: https://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/Galapagos?mapMode=useGoogle

Like all of you, we are looking forward to a day when we can make plans for more than a day in advance. Till then, stay healthy.

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