{"id":2415,"date":"2009-06-03T17:36:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T22:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gatolocosailing.com\/blog\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2009-06-03T17:36:09","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T22:36:09","slug":"leg-8-getting-to-gato-loco-then-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gatolocosailing.com\/blog\/?p=2415","title":{"rendered":"Leg 8 – Getting to Gato Loco & then some"},"content":{"rendered":"

We arrived at Puerto Penasco and met up with Brian and Heather at JJ’s. We then decided to take the 8 hour overnight bus to San Carlos instead of waiting till the next day…I yi yi! This picture sums up our first day in Mexico – exhausted. Thanks so much Brian and Heather for all of your hospitality!\"DSCN0930\"<\/p>\n

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Our group portrait in the luxurious station wagon cab to the market, almost everyone had a seat this time!<\/p>\n

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Finally on the water…Kentucky fried Chuck<\/p>\n

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The first lil’ fishy Danny caught…This guy was the same size as the cute pink lure, wooohooo!<\/p>\n

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Holy mackeral! This guy and his 4 siblings were dinner for 2 nights – cajun style and excellent fish tacos, courtesy of the mackeral family…mmmm mmm! Thanks fellas!<\/p>\n

We saw hundreds of porpoises, or as Smee Shelby likes to call them porpi or porposi – plural for porpoise. Captain Bill Hook likes to call them “porpoise with a purpose”…we’ve got some real freaks on this leg!<\/p>\n

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Canada, eh? Mom, we saw your people! Wish you were here!<\/p>\n

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Tigerlily Casey – the butterfly whisperer<\/p>\n

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Casey and Shelby have seen and heard it all…pirates trying to hop on ship during the middle of the night, whale sonar, and the elusive giant squid!<\/p>\n

Captain Bill had to break the harsh news, I guess the refrigerator sounds a lot like pirates in the middle of the night. Too bad they didn’t find out until the morning, they locked their quarters and slept with butcher knives and pepper spray…<\/p>\n

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Crossing the Rio Grande upon our return from Carnage Island, argghhhh! Everything in the Sea of Cortez comes here to die…<\/p>\n

Mako shark – deceased<\/p>\n

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Porpoise with a purpose…Porposi…Porpi<\/p>\n

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The Jellyfish – my arch nemesis!<\/p>\n

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We arrived at Puerto Penasco and met up with Brian and Heather at JJ’s. We then decided to take the 8 hour overnight bus to San Carlos instead of waiting till the next day…I yi yi! This picture sums up our first day in Mexico – exhausted. Thanks so much Brian and Heather for all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baja-09"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqi7b-CX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gatolocosailing.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gatolocosailing.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gatolocosailing.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatolocosailing.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatolocosailing.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatolocosailing.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gatolocosailing.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatolocosailing.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatolocosailing.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}