“The Wine List”
Traveling solo, I had just paddled a heavily loaded kayak almost 200 miles over sixteen days, chased coyotes making off with my clothes, and sparingly used my food and water so that I could make it here to Guillermo’s.
Tagged: Gulf of California
A Dream Accomplished Kayaking in Sea of Cortez – Day 27
Paddling for hours and days on the vast but lonely expanse of the Sea of Cortez, I experienced how meditation could affect my body and mind.
Kayaking in Sea of Cortez: Destination Within Reach – Day 26
I was up early this morning just north of Punta Baja while kayaking in Sea of Cortez and got into the water by about 5:40. I maintained an hour of paddling followed by short...
Kayaking in Sea of Cortez: Hungry in Punta Trinidad Day 25
The wind at my camp at Punta Trinidad on the Sea of Cortez finally let up at about 11 PM but then it started again at about three in the morning. I didn’t get...
Day 24 – Took a Shortcut, Wrong!
I slept late this morning at my campsite on Punta El Almirante, waking at almost 6 AM. I launched and after putting in a couple of hours of paddling in Sea of Cortez, I found...
Kayaking in Sea of Cortez: El Barril Day 22
This is the first day of the fourth week of kayaking in Sea of Cortez. Here, about five miles south of San Francisquito, the tide didn’t come up anywhere near where I thought it would. My...
Kayaking in Sea of Cortez: Bahia de San Rafael – Day 20
I awoke in the morning to the sound of the trawlers that had been working all offshore in Bahia San Rafael. Made breakfast of tortillas and jam, they taste so good along with the...
Kayaking in Sea of Cortez: Other Kayakers on My Sea – Day 19
Kayaking in Sea of Cortez on my 19th day the sunrise came early at my camp on the beach south of Puertecitos de Emmedio. The days were getting longer, but also direction that I...
Kayaking in Sea of Cortez: God Must Live Here! – Day 18
Kayaking in Sea of Cortez: It had taken me eighteen days to reach this remote paradise, but this beauty of this cove alone made it worth it.
Kayaking in Sea of Cortez: Where Are All the Fish? – Day 17
“Ricketts and Steinbeck, where are you? No birds are diving, no fish are jumping. The banquet is over, I fear.
The Sea of Cortez is dying.”
