Sunrise on Tuesday, January 17. The crescent moon looks fuzzy in this photo because it was blurred by a cloud.

The waves built through the night, and it was another uncomfortably rocky morning. After we finished our morning chores, we went to the Cantamar for Elevensies (late breakfast/early lunch. Eric ordered chili rellenos stuffed with seafood in a cream sauce. They may have been the biggest rellenos we’ve ever seen, and they were great.

After we ordered, Christi walked over to the reception desk to ask if we could leave our dinghy on their beach while we went to La Paz. The reception staff told us that we could for a $10 per person fee, so $30. When Christi said that were spending more than $30 at the restaurant, they made it clear that the fee was to have the dinghy on their property, and that the fee was on top of anything we purchased at the hotel. Christi said that we’d leave right away to avoid the fee.

We quickly ate our food and darted through the courtyard to the beach, worried that a staff member would be waiting at the dinghy with their hand outstretched for money. We were relieved when we escaped unaccosted.

We took the dinghy to the public beach and summoned an Uber to take us to town. We had to wait 20 minutes before someone accepted our ride, then waited another half-hour for them to arrive. The Uber dropped us off at Marina de La Paz, where we met some of the crew from Erin Skye and Moin. We walked over to a nearby restaurant called Hacienda Rancho Viejo for Luncheon.

Oceananigans was currently in Marina de La Paz. After lunch, Eric went over to their boat to help with a project they were doing. Meanwhile, Christi, Keith, Cariss and the younger two Oceananigans kids met up with a couple of other boat families and walked to the skate park. While we were there, several other boat families, including Moin, joined us. The kids had a blast. 

We summoned an Uber when the  sun was low in the sky. It took 40-minutes before someone accepted us. We were relived that we made it back to Kosmos before the final rays of light were gone. 

On Wednesday, the crescent moon was high in the east sky and shining brightly as the sun rose.

We arrived on the beach at noon and immediately summoned an Uber. We waited 45-minutes before a driver finally accepted our ride. By 1230, we were starting to worry that no one would pick us up, so Christi walked over to the ferry terminal to ask if there was a shuttle between ferry terminal and La Paz.

There was a line of trucks in the highway median waiting to get inside the terminal. Inside the terminal, there was a long line of trucks.

One of the soldiers stationed near the entrance told her that a bus ran every 1.5 hours, and she’d just missed the 12:30 bus. She did remember seeing the blue bus go by as she was walking out of the parking lot. The next bus would be at 1400. 

She was about to text Eric the information when he texted her first to let her know he had gotten an Uber confirmation and to walk back to the beach. The Uber was coming from La Paz, and stopped at the Cantamar to drop someone off before picking us up, so it took him a little over half an hour to arrive after confirmation.

We had the Uber driver drop us off at a restaurant called Tres Virgenes that had been recommended to us. Eric got a jamaica margarita, which is now his favorite flavor of margarita. He first tried one at Majago.

Table-side Caesar salads, where the sauce is made in front of you and then carefully applied to the romaine leaves, seems to be common at high-end restaurants here in Baja. We’ve also had table-side Caesar’s at Buzo’s and El Rey Sol in Ensenada. This one was the best of the three.

One of our favorite Mexican street vendor foods is grilled corn, which has butter, Tajin (a seasoning made of mild chili powder and lime zest) and cotija cheese. This place had a different version, with sriracha mayonnaise and cotija cheese instead of the butter/Tajin. It was so good.

After lunch, we walked over to Marina de La Paz, but no one was around. We walked to the skate park, but no one was there, either. So we summoned an Uber. We waited about 40-minutes before an a driver accepted our ride. We made it back before the sunset.