La Paz

We anchored the boat just outside the marina in La Paz, and we used the dingy to travel back and forth between the marina and boat.  This means we only had to pay 15 Pecos a day to use the dingy dock, which significantly reduced our costs.

A visitor while we were at anchor

Dingy dock in La Paz

We then had a lovely dinner with Mom and Da at the marina  restaurant and wondered around the waterfront.

Dinner in La Paz

Mom and Da had to fly out the next day from San Jose del Cabo, so we rented a vehicle for the day.  The drive was approximately 2.5 hrs each way as we took the more scenic route, which turned out to be more beautiful than expected.   Based on what we had seen of the Baja coast to this point, we expected dry desert dotted with cacti, which we did see at first. This soon changed to winding roads through green hills and then into mountains, river beds, and cliffs dropping off to the sea.

En route to San Jose del Cabo

Desert outside of La Paz

The mountains on the east coast of the Baha

Mom and Da

River bed

Vada went home to Cape Breton with Mom and Da.  We had decided to do this because of the logistics around taking a dog through customs so many times in such a short period just really wasn't practical.   Vada was also starting to mind the heat.  Given that Vada's temperature of choice is about -15 degree C, we had anticipated this, but hadn't expected her to struggle so early on.  It's going to be really hard for me to go the next 6.5 months without my girl.

Last day with our girl

Justin and I returned to La Paz, stopping in Los Berilles, a seaside town, for dinner.  We took advantage of having the car and picked up groceries that night once we got into La Paz.

Dinner in Los Berilles

Drive back to La Paz

The next morning,  Justin and I went swimming with whale sharks, which was totally amazing.   The whale sharks were adolescents,  and as such were only about 10 meters long.  However 10 meters long seems plenty big enough when they're only an arm's length away from you.  This definitely was a top experience of our trip so far for both Justin and I.

About to go swimming with the whale sharks

We spent the afternoon at the marina restaurant snacking while doing our laundry and updating facebook / our blog with the marina WiFi.

We intended to sail out that night,  but we were pretty exhausted.   So we stayed the night at anchor and set out for Puerto Vallarta the next day.