Time spent in the marina
La Paz is amazing. It’s a wonderful Mexican town full of life and tourism feels like the city’s side hustle instead of the in-your-face feel of Cabo.
We haven’t dipped into the touristy stuff aside from eating at some amazing restaurants. (Taylor ordered a whole octopus and it was incredible).
We settled into a marina to get cleaned up. The boat and the boaters got a shower and all scrubbed.
We met a hoard of sailors in the first few days. We’ve finally arrived at a cruising harbor and we’re immediately surrounded by boats from Canada, Europe and tons from the US. Stay tuned because the sailors we’ve met get even better in ‘La Paz part 2: life at anchor’.
Tay’s good at offering everyone we meet a beer and every now and then they take us up on it, and we get to hear lifetimes of sailing stories.
Every morning at 8, the VHF radio alights with the cruiser ‘net’ – an interactive conversation/radio show of new arrivals, questions, trades, and events for cruisers. The resources, the community, and the volume of sailors is awesome.
La Paz is also the first Mexican town we’ve visited to have a lively central market so I’m in heaven wandering around the stalls selling all sorts of anything edible. Grocery shopping has always been a favorite activity of mine and this takes it to a new level.
We spent four nights in the marina, more than planned due to my illness. Perhaps we got casual with bleaching our vegetables, or ordering cocktails with ice. Or maybe the luck ran out and it was simply my time to have the bug.
La Paz bay is similar geographically to San Diego bay, but the difference is you can anchor out for free so to save funds we’ll be spending our nights on the hook.