Turtle Bay stop on Mon Nov 5.

We are here in Bahia Tortuga, at an Internet cafe. Sorry for the strange text and fonts. I had to cut and paste from Works to notepad to this post.
We are having fun checking things out. Below is a snippet of our log. Good luck reading it.

UPDATED post for 11/5==========
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Tenacity S/V Trip log from San Diego south. (October - November 2007)
We arrived at Coronado on Friday night (Oct. 26th) and stayed at Los Glorious anchorage for two nights before moving over to the Police Docks at Shelter Island, San Diego on Sunday Oct. 28. Although, before moving over, we just explored and went for walks. We actually helped rescue a grounded sailboat from the rocks.
On Tuesday (October 30) Patrick joined us before leaving for San Quintin. On Wednesday (October 31) we left San Diego at 6:30am. We were expecting warm and sunny weather. After getting out of San Diego bay, we turned left and went south to San Quintin. Enroute we passed the Islas Coranodos on our starboard (right) side. We sailed for approximately 30 hours, 150 nautical miles. Unfortunately we did not have enough wind to sail, so it was a long “motor” stretch. Throughout the day we just checked the charts, GPS, and worked with the auto-pilot. We continued to motor through the night, and arrived at San Quintin around 10:30 am, (on Thursday Nov. 1) sooner than we thought. This bay was somewhat disorienting. After pulling into our anchorage we all aboard thought north was actually west, and we felt like the “protected anchorage” was sitting out in the ocean. We spent the rest of the day taking showers, and just checking things around the boat. In reality it was a very calm and protected anchorage.
On Friday, November 2, we pulled out of San Quintin around 7 am headed to San Benitos islands. On Friday we motored until about noon, when the wind finally picked up. We were lucky enough to have 15 to 25 knot winds from Noon Friday until about 6 am, Saturday 3. We tried a few different sail combinations, including the mizzen sail, or no mizzen sail and went wing on wing, or just the main sail shortened. We continually got speeds of 6 knots, and occasional 7 knots of speed “over land” (not just through the water). We arrived here in San Benito Islands today Saturday, November 3rd around 9:30 am. After anchoring a local came out in his row boat asking if we wanted lobster. The crew on our partner boat actually took him up on his offer. After that three of us kayaked out and about our boats. We landed on the “beach” of the little village, and went exploring. This afternoon we just goofed off and cleaned up the boat etc. Tomorrow we are planning on leaving around 6 am headed to Turtle Bay (that has a decent town).
Sunday (November 4th) we left San Benitos Islands at 6 am. We motored with no winds, and cloudy sky, with no sun. Actually we had very calm seas. Finally as we passed Cedros Island the sun came out and we thought we finally hit the warm Mexican climate. Psych!!! The sun went behind clouds after only about two hours. Around noon we actually got some wind, so we used both the motor and the sails. At some point around 2 in the afternoon, several dolphins joined us, and swam with and near the boat. Terry was driving and was the first to notice them, only because he saw one jump higher than the deck of the boat. Then Vicki and Patrick went up on the bow to watch them. At one point we decided to get a camera and try to catch them on film / digital. We did get some video, but mostly of the water. We decided they were camera shy. We pulled into Turtle Bay around 4:30pm. After dropping anchor, we sat and had wine on board and soaked in the surroundings. Several pangas came close and asked if we had trash (basura), if we needed fuel, and if we needed laundry done. So tonight is enchiladas on board, and tomorrow we are going ashore to check out the little town here. We will also get fuel for the boat.