Playa Pichilingue is nice. There is a beach with two restaurants and a road to La Paz. There is also a dock, but it is broken. The tide swings were so huge that at high tide the water went up to my waist at the broken end of the dock, but Dad carried me.
Playa Pichilingue est bien. Il y a une plage avec deux restaurants et une route pour La Paz. Il y a aussi un ponton, mais il est cassé. Les marées étaient tellement grosse qu’à marée haute l’eau montait jusqu’à ma taille à la fin du ponton, et papa a dû me porter.
The malecon stretches on for miles. When we felt like we’d walked far enough, we turned inland and headed towards the historic church. Just a block in from the malecon, there was a pedestrian walkway that was packed with vendors selling assorted goods.
Here is the other end of the walkway. You can see that the vendor stalls end just before the entrance to Sears.
Sunrise on Friday (November 25). It was still super windy and the port captain for Bahia de La Paz was still not allowing boats to leave. In this photo, you can actually see the swell. Since this anchorage was protected from the wind, this was “wrap around” swell. Needless to say, it was an uncomfortable morning aboard Kosmos.
One of the things that Eric had bought at the boat store on Wednesday was bigger swivels for the paravanes. Eric had realized that the working load on the flopper stoppers swivels weren’t high enough and needed to be upgraded. Before deploying the flopper stoppers, Eric removed the swivels from the paravanes and put them on the flopper stoppers (the swivels that were on the paravanes were significantly larger than the ones that had been on the flopper stoppers). He’ll put the newly purchased swivels on the paravanes another day.
When we went to shore today, the tide was even higher than it had been on Wednesday.
On our way into town, we stopped by Marina Costa Baja’s marina office. The marina office, fuel dock and boat yard were disconnected from the rest of the marina/hotel complex. It had a separate entrance about a mile north of the entrance to the marina/hotel. To get from the fuel dock to the hotel/marina, one had to walk on the a dirt road that paralleled the highway or take a dinghy.
Since Christi wasn’t up for cooking, we decided to celebrate Thanksgiving (Thursday, November 24) by eating out. Our friends on Oceananigans offered to drop us off in town on their way to their Thanksgiving festivities. This time, we rode into shore with them on their dinghy. The plan was that we would return their dinghy to their boat when we returned from town.
We all stopped for breakfast at a cafe in the Costa Baja resort.
Since it was too early for lunch, we had time to kill. Christi needed a haircut, so we had them drop us off at a hair salon near Chedraui that one of the cruisers had recommended. We were sad to see that it was out of business. From there, we went to another boat store, located near Marina de La Paz, looking for generator filters. Neither boat store that we’d gone to yesterday had them, nor did this one.
By now it was lunch time. We decided to go to a restaurant called Estrella del Mar primarily because it was close. The restaurant was literally the southwest end of the malecon, directly next door to Marina Cortez (and Marina Cortez was next door to Marina de La Paz).
