Skip to content
Connor Passe

Travel By Sea

La Paz

17–24 April 2026 · Round trip from La Paz, Mexico

Sailing out of La Paz with friends to Isla Espíritu Santo and Isla Partida, a UNESCO-listed national park in the Sea of Cortez. From Marina Costa Baja we sailed north past Pichilingue and up the west side of Espíritu Santo to Caleta Partida, the channel between the two islands, for two nights; then to Ensenada Grande, round the north tip of Isla Partida and down the Gulf side to Bahía Bonanza for two more, before sailing back to La Paz.

Sailing · By Sea

A chartered sailboat, with friends

  • 5 nights aboard
  • ~61 nm
  • 2 islands
  • Caleta Partida + Bahía Bonanza

The chart

A chart of the route. Each stop on it is a button that reads out its day and note, and the same stops are listed day by day after it.

The islands and La Paz

Day by day

    • La Paz, Baja California Sur Flew DCA → ATL → MEX → La Paz, landed 6:50 PM.
    • Marina Costa Baja, La Paz approx. Boat base (start/end); first night aboard. Charter company not in email.

  2. Wind from the WNW, 2–15 kn, gusts 20, force 1–4 Waves 0.1–0.3 m, smooth,open water nearby

    • Pichilingue approx. Late morning heading out of La Paz.
    • Caleta Partida Anchorage between Isla Espíritu Santo and Isla Partida; nights of Apr 18 and 19.

  3. Wind from the SW, 2–15 kn, gusts 20, force 1–4 Waves 0.1–0.4 m, smooth,open water nearby

    • Caleta Partida — east side approx. Midday excursion across the caleta toward the Gulf side.

  4. Wind from the SSW, 2–16 kn, gusts 21, force 1–4 Waves 0.1–0.4 m, smooth,open water nearby

    • Ensenada Grande, Isla Partida Early afternoon; farthest north of the trip.
    • Bahía Bonanza, Isla Espíritu Santo Reached by rounding the north end of Isla Partida and running down the east side; nights of Apr 20 and 21.

  5. Wind from the SSW, 5–17 kn, gusts 23, force 2–5 Waves 0.1–0.4 m, smooth,open water nearby

  6. Wind from the SSW, 7–14 kn, gusts 20, force 3–4 Waves up to 0.3 m, smooth,open water nearby

    • Marina Costa Baja (return) Sailed back Apr 22 afternoon; evening on the Malecón.
    • La Paz Bay near El Mogote approx. Midday on the water off El Mogote (separate outing; not the sailboat).
    • La Paz → home Flew out 9:00 AM.

Key to the chart

  • Traced from photos
  • Estimated, no photo for a long stretch
  • A photo’s GPS fix
  • The boat
  • Port
  • Charter base
  • Anchorage
  • Stop
  • Dinghy or hike
  • Excursion
  • Transit
  • Approximate position

The track comes from about 290 geotagged photos, fewer than on the other trips. The anchorages are certain; where the photos run out, rounding the north tip of Isla Partida, the Gulf side of Espíritu Santo and the run home through the San Lorenzo Channel, the line is dashed. Where a straight line between two photos would cross land, the route goes round by sea, as the boat did, and a photo taken ashore marks where the boat lay off.

Each day’s wind and sea are the models’, read for every hour on the water where the boat was then: the wind from ECMWF’s IFS, the waves from Météo-France’s MFWAM, through Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Where a day says open water nearby, the boat lay at anchor or went ashore, in water calmer than the model’s, or was in a channel the wave model has as land, and the waves are the nearest open water’s, within 30 km; where the route is dashed, so is where they were read. A ferry’s crossing is read along the ferry. Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information; doi.org/10.48670/moi-00017.