Thirty miles of motoring away from Los Muertos and we were through most of the Cerralvo Channel. The wind came up, and we were able to sail the next 25 miles into Bahia Falsa, a small cove only 5 miles from La Paz. Sailing a reach is always a fun ride on Pelican Moon, and although the seas were brittle we made good time, enjoying the scenery and the hope of fixing our tank problems.

Bahia Falsa is immediately adjacent to Pichiligue, the major industrial and shipping port for La Paz. You can catch a ferry here for Mazatlan, and one entered the channel shortly before we made the turn, a stroke of seafaring good fortune – nobody likes going nose-to-nose with a giant car ferry, do they?

False Bay is so quiet and peaceful, it’s hard to believe how close we are to a city of more than 275,000 people. A small fishing camp is on one side of the bay, and a palapa restaurant and kayak rental place is on the other. We rowed our boat ashore one day and caught the bus into town for our final provisioning run before heading out for Isla Espiritu national park. After taking the last bus back from La Paz that night, we had a few fish tacos at the palapa. They kept the restaurant open late just for us.