Spent several days sitting around in Mazatlan waiting for some good wind to take us south to Isla Isabel. We finally decided that we would buy a spinnaker and see if we could get the boat to move a bit faster in the light winds, luckily we met a guy who had an extra one laying around that was almost a perfect fit.
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| Our New Spinnaker |
The spinnaker did help quite a bit and kept us going without having to turn the engine on for quite some time. It was slow going though and nothing is going to move you in windless conditions except the engine and so we did end up motoring for the final 12 hours.
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| Sea birds will often land on the boat to take a break, this tern stayed with us for a couple hours, we also saw a number of terns riding around on sea turtles |
Finally arrived at our destination 24 hours later and on my birthday. Isla Isabel is a National Park 70 miles south of Mazatlan. It home to a number of breeding bird colonies including the Magnificent Frigate Bird, the Brown Booby, the Blue Footed Booby and others along with several species of lizards. Not a bad place to spend your birthday.
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| View from the Light House |
Hiked up to the light house the 1st morning we were there, pretty awesome views from up there. My camera batteries died right after taking this photo. The second time I hiked up there a couple days later, I took several photos which I think would have turned out awesome but the camera for some reason didn't save any of them. I guess it's time for a new camera.
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| Blue Footed Boobies |
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| Brown Boobies |
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| Fishing Village on the Island |
One of the most amazing places that I have ever been, wish I had an underwater camera, the fish and sealife surrounding the island was pretty amazing too and we even saw humped back whales breaching off on the horizon.We'll have another chance to go back on our way up the coast next spring.
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| Brown Boobies |
