Dropped the hook in Turtle Bay

Just a quick email-to-blog note to let everyone know we made it safely to Bahia de Tortugas, or Turtle Bay. It’s about a third of the way down the outside of the Baja peninsula. We left Ensenada Tuesday afternoon and dropped our anchor around 8am this morning. It was a 64 hour passage over 2 days and 3 nights. We did night watch shifts of 3 hours on, 3 hours off. We stayed about 10-20nm offshore most of the way and had really great weather. It got gusty and rolly a time or two, but we had no bad weather at all. Yesterday, for example, I set the sails to a broad reach in the morning, adjusted the autopilot, and we didn’t touch a thing for the rest of the day. We just enjoyed being out on the ocean, read our books, and did projects, and we watched Stormy fly along at over 5 knots the entire day—-without touching a thing! There is only one other sailboat anchored here at the moment, so after a nap, we plan on heading ashore to check out the village. It looks like we’ll have it mostly to ourselves. zzzzz