Buenos Dias Now In Ensenada

After a light wind sail arrived in Ensenada this morning. Left San Diego at 2pm with the tide and a light afternoon breeze to help us along. Mostly sailed with a bit of motoring during night and some again in the morning. Called the marina operator on the vhf and he said he would be down on the dock in a minute. We were not sure which dock to dock at and then somebody whistles and waves us over to a slip which did not seem quite right, as we head over the real dock guy waves us over to the other dock, ah Mexico, we just had our first scam tried on us.
Turns out today, Monday is a holiday, so alot of things closed including customs. Our dock guy, Roger, says we can do it tomorrow. Hope he is right. $30 dollars for a marina slip, including showers and wi fi. Bought some Stugeron for Dorothy to try, although she has been pretty good latley with seasickness. Will stay here 2 nights, and then a longer haul to turtle bay, about 260 miles. May be up to 3 weeks before can up date here as I dont think there is any Internet until La Paz. Its about 800 miles to La Paz and will make 2 stops of 2 or 3 days each on the way to La Paz.
Got Customs and Immigration done on Tuesday Nov 17. It took three and a half hours, missed my morning coffee break and bun. But it was an interesting expierience.
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This is being added a year later so relying on log book and memory. In Ensenada We used Marina Baha Naval and from what we heard later it is your best choice or it was back then. Roger was great took carry of everything and helped with customs. Had good showers and wifi. I believe you can only anchor out if the marinas are full.
Customs and immigration, the whole lot was in one big office and you go in a circle to get it all done, easy, just takes 3 hours, had to goto to room next door to photo copy several things for customs, all part of the show. We did not get a fishing license as am allergic to fish. Was never hassled about it. We did not get Mexican boat insurance. We did have a copy of my 3rd party boat insurance from Vancouver. Boat is not insured Every marina in Mexico asked to see this boat insurance form. They just copied it never looked at it. Never was hassled about Mexican boat insurance. We did pay the$40 for boat import permit which was asked for at every marina.
When checking in at a Mexican marina bring all your customs, passports all paper work to its office.