Posts from ‘December, 2008’

Today we spent the morning at a different unnamed beach on Espiritu Santo, which is where I took the picture in the post here. The white sand beaches are a great sight with the water temperature in the 70’s it’s hard not to appreciate your surroundings. The water has been pretty rough the last couple [...]

Not one of the pictures i took today really turned out, but that’s OK, because we really didn’t go anywhere all too exciting. We are parked in a bay of the Island Espiritu Santo today for the whole day. It’s been so windy down here that the boat will get a little to rocky for [...]

I got the patch on last night. Looks good, eh?
It was nice to be off for a couple of days, but I’m ready to go back to work. Today I meet up with the M/V National Geographic Sea Lion and then we will be on our way. The boat is fresh out of shipyard. I [...]

How to: Navigation
“Be sure you are right, and then go ahead,”
-Daniel Boone, one of the greatest of American wilderness travelers knew this as all wilderness travelers must and phrased it in an epigram that has become classic.
Navigation is one of the most basic elements of life. Without the skill of navigation we would [...]

Well, Christmas is here, and so is the last day of my mini-vacation. Not a whole lot going on today. Most businesses are closed, and town is pretty dead. I went for a swim earlier, then took a ciesta on the beach. Pretty rough, I’ll tell ya.
I did manage to pick up a La [...]

This morning I woke up with a need to not eat tacos for a day. They are so good, but I’m starting to get tired of them.I spent the day in search of something to eat other than tacos, and found a pretty good pizza restaurant about a half mile away from my hotel. I [...]

Money in Mexico is ending up to be quite a trip for me. I’m still not quite sure how it works, but it’s sure not the same as the US.
The prices of things is really crazy to me, some things are super cheap, then some things are really expensive. I’d guess that’s bound to [...]

So after a little scheduling hiccup, I’ll be spending this whole week in La Paz instead of working. That’s alright with me, I’ll get to spend some time exploring around and seeing what’s going on here. I did get to spend some time walking around the last day or so, and have come to the [...]