After one week of cruising the Islands Espiritu Santo and Partida, we returned to La Paz last night to spend a couple of days on land.

The trip was great, we had good weather and so far hurricane Frank has stayed off the coast of Baja California. Tomorrow, Saturday, there is a storm warning, another reason for returning to the marina.

We have been fishing a lot, but not really catching anything, the fish bite but cut our lines most of the time.

We went snorkelling with the sea lions one day, they were very curious and playful.

Another day we dove the wreck of Fan Ming, a nice 180 ft wreck that lies upright at 21 m depth. We saw a very big sea turtle on the wreck, and it was a great dive. We will definitely return and dive there again.

The boat is finally ready, and the last 3 days we have been out cruising.

We anchored in Ballandra Bay first, and the next day we moved to Pichilingue.

We had a great time swimming, snorkelling and relaxing.

Now we are back in Marina Palmira to pick up the rest of the family arriving from Denmark.

We plan to go out again on Thursday or Friday, maybe up to Loretto.

Maja diving at the sea lion colony on a Tec 40 training dive.

Laurent and the dogs at our "private" beach in Pichilingue. You can only get there by boat and there's never anybody there.

We are still waiting for the guys to finish the work on the teak deck and a few other things, but the boat is looking better every day.

It is also getting hotter by the day, and there's less wind.

We take the dogs to the beach every afternoon, they too are suffering from the heat and very happy to go swimming.

new saloon

Our new chart table, Laurent's design. We have a lot more space in the pilothouse saloon now.

About 2 weeks ago we found this little puppy in the drive- in coffee shop in Centenario, where somebody had left her to die. She was very skinny and dirty, and would not even come close to us at first. We went there to feed her for some days, then took her to the dog refuge to have her vaccinated and cleaned up.

We have agreed to foster her until we can find a home for her, so now she is also living on the boat with us. We have named her Mocca.

She is the sweetest little dog, and Touline is very

happy to have a playmate.