Beautiful Gonzaga

Sept 26 - Oct. 7th: Yes, our current plans are to leave Gonzaga on Sunday, Oct. 7th. We will miss this place and our friends very much as hopefully the following pictures and stories will show.

Gonzaga is a bit magical. It's about 400 or so miles south of the Tijuana border on the Sea of Cortez side. You have to really want to get here to get here. The Baja 1000 goes through this place every November, so that should give you an idea of ruggeness.

Well, Jim and Darda Harrison found their little piece of paradise here. (That's Jim and Darda!). They named the place "The Parrothead Resort and Spa" and have entertained many people, including us, in grand and gracious style. Well, not exactly Hyatt Regency 'grand', but if you want that kind of grand, you're in the wrong place.

The sunrises and sunsets are spectactular, as the pictures attached should show. The water is beautiful and Jim and Darda have fully stocked all the play toys necessary to enjoy this, with kayaks, sailboats, windsurfers, dunebuggies, etc. for full enjoyment. It is an awesome place.


When we got here, we were greated by our many friends. We do not yet have a picture of all those who came down here, but we have it on good authority (Bill took the picture) that a picture of the group was taken. Once we have that picture, we'll edit the blog and add it.

We've also sailed over to Two-Headed Cove with the whole group to swim, snorkel and dive. A wonderful day trip and Wirewalker was more than happy to accomodate.

The picture below is of Bill enjoying the windsurfing toys here at Parrothead. It's important to note that the picture was taken microseconds before Bill went splat ... again.

And the wildlife accomodates also. The picture below shows a coyote just across the road from Parrothead and in front of the back bay.

Sunday, we will leave for Puerto Refugio on the northern end of Isla Angel de la Guardia for a couple days, then down to the Bay of LA for a few more days. From there, we'll head to Bahia San Francisquito and the 75 mile trip to Santa Rosalia. Once down to Santa Rosalia, we'll be in familiar cruising grounds from our trip up the coast last Spring and we'll move slowly but deliberately to Isla San Francisco, where we'll make the crossing to Mazatlan, the second week of November.

We'll keep the posts coming via ham radio, but there'll not be pictures again until we get to Mazatlan.