Guaymas, Mexico Travel Blogs

Across the Mexico Border
Jan 29, 2004 (4 photos)

... used to over the last few months, but we slept pretty well regardless. The following morning we weren't particularly sorry to leave Guaymas, which seems to be a fairly charmless town, as we took a bus further south to Navajoa. Three and a half hours ...

Celestino and Guaymas
Mar 29, 2008

... way up to the border, so we decided to push on through without much more delay. We did want to buy some shrimp at Guaymas, the shrimp center on the west coast, so we did. Luckily, there were vendors conveniently located on the outskirts of town so we didn ...

Guaymas
Feb 26, 2008 (17 photos)

 

LA to San Carlos
Nov 11, 2007

Drove across the deserts of Arizona on our way to Mexico.  Not to much to write about yesterday.  Stopped for a shower and lunch at El Dorado Hot Springs just outside of Buckeye.  To our surprise we had stumbled across what appeared to be ...

Mexico- Should we go or should we stay? GO
Jun 8, 2009 (9 photos)

... , so we decided to give it a go, as we knew could make it before dusk. For people who want to travel down the Baja, Guaymas is the port town that ferries vehicles from the Baja to mainland Mexico. We found an RV site here over-looking the inner harbor and ...

Livin' la Vida Loca
Mar 23, 2006 (35 photos)

... , lots of cowboy hats, and lots of boots. The music was slightly defeaning, but overall an interesting experience. Just south of Guaymas, I ate what was possibly the most pure form of seafood I will ever eat. Miguel's family took us to a place called ...

Catch 22
Jul 27, 2007 (13 photos)

Around the area where Catch 22 was filmed. "Tom get your plane ride on time....." S&G. San Carlos, although quite touristy with Gringos is a really nice place, the scenery is amazing. Lots of rocky backdrops . Walked around for a bit then found a ...

More north
Nov 16, 2008

Here, in amongst the big rigs, in a real trailer park, it seems a bit surreal. We're so small and frail in our little van, and all these giant 5th wheel things and mohomes surround us like a wolfpack cornering a rabbit. A bit intimidating, but apparently ...

Off We Go ! San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico
Mar 26, 2008 (9 photos)

... another ... well memorial type church. I think it is called a descanso in Spanish. As we traveled down Mexico Hwy 15D As the day progressed and the "REST" ares passed us by we finally reached our destination for ...

Guaymas
Jul 26, 2007 (9 photos)

On the overnight 20hr bus journey from Guadalajara there was a really odd couple next to us, an old guy (non Mexican - maybe American) with a very young (Mexican) girlfriend who didn´t seem to be to enamoured with him - v. suspicious! At one point I heard ...

Back to the desert and San Carlos
Apr 4, 2008 (11 photos)

... Still a day riding is way better than being at work!! I also had to get a shot of the Police cars of Mexico..NEW Dodge Chargers...don't think I could outrun these guys. About an hour before sunset we rode back into San Carlos and found ...

Guaymas, Sonora
Jan 11, 2007

... good.  The state of Sonora is really all about agriculture, so we spent hours driving through corn, chili and tomatoes.  Guaymas and San Carlos are two sister beach cities.  Guaymas is an older port city and San Carlos is a bit touristy.& ...

In the Early Days Even Guaymas was Interesting
Oct 18, 2006

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safe arrival in San Carlos via Air Anderson
Mar 30, 2008 (9 photos)

... offer to give us a lift down to San Carlos we probably could not have taken her because the only airline who flies into Guaymas, US Airways, does not allow dogs in cargo on connecting flights. We found the boat safely in the ship yard at San Carlos. ...

Hot Ferry To The Mainland
Jul 9, 2006 (3 photos)

... , corrugated metal, dirty deck floor. Our night of slow torture began. Dawn appeared as we drew near the port city of Guaymas. Looking at each other greased in our own stale sweat and sticky deck slime, all we could do was laugh. Our laughter ...

Impressions
Oct 13, 2005

The Lonely Planet says Guaymas doesn't pander to tourists and it was so right. We loved it. It was just a mid-sized Mexican city, and we were left alone to check it out at our own pace. No one accosted us in the street ("Do you want to try a really great ...

Guaymas,in the boatyard
Apr 7, 2009 (5 photos)

After leaving Escondido,they sailed up the coast 30nm,then 'turned right' and crossed the Sea of Cortez,for 70nm to Guaymas.The crossing was a little rough and typically choppy for this time of year. Tony is returning to the UK this weekend.Ahhhh! Tony ...

A day at the coast
Jun 28, 2009 (3 photos)

... bandits on this road taking tolls $59 pesos on a regular basis. I is very fair though $59 for tourists and $6 for locals. Guaymas was not that startling but OK for a Sunday, they are trying to smarten up the port and harbourside areas but was by now a ...

La Monga to Guaymas
Jul 27, 1999

After two weeks of living in the tent we decided we were ready to stay in Guaymas at a hotel for our last week, just to switch it up. We walked to Club Med to say goodbye to the boys but we couldn't find them so we left. We then stood out front in the ...

Guaymas
Jul 18, 1999

... and not last time hitchhiking was on this trip. One day Fernando, Chico (a local from La Monga), Amanda and I hitchhiked into Guaymas to do a water and food run. Lots of fun! We felt completely comfortable because Fernando spoke fluent Spanish so it was ...

Down Mexico way
Dec 1, 2009

Hi all! Tony's left and currently in Phoenix,Arizona. Tomorrow, he sets off on the bus (quite luxurious,even compared to ours!) to Guaymas,which takes approx. 7 hours. He'll be assessing work to be done and then I'll join him in two weeks. Arriba,arriba!

Hurricane Jimena
Sep 16, 2009

We're not there and glad we and Windstrutter are okay.However,many have lost everything. Guaymas has had 20ins of rain.Mulege (fishing town of 20,000) has been deastated!S.ignacio a beautiful oasis has been blown away.Help is needed.Please check out on ...

Owaje (eye of the water)
Jul 26, 1999

... for us to come along with them to Ouaje (eye of the water). It's a place that water comes out of the mountain. This area in Mexico is very much desert. The Americans went here to get water and to take a day trip. So all of us went there and had fun ...

À Guaymas... dans une secteur peligrosa
Jun 21, 2006

C'était à prix de 200 $MX, mais les conditions étaient moins que superbes... Pas si grave problème, à part la mise en garde par la fille à la gare qui m'y a amené tout en répétant "peligroso" que je pensais être "laid" mais qui voulait en fait dire "dangereux" !!! ...

Preparing our return
Nov 5, 2009

Hi Everyone! Well, I've booked my ticket and will be in Guaymas for December 15th! Tony will get there two weeks earlier and prepare Windstrutter to be launched. We plan to sail across the Sea of Cortez to Santa Rosalia in time for Xmas, where we hope to ...

boatyard to pontoon
Dec 23, 2009 (5 photos)

... garlic prawns and our friends (Joel and Dave from s/y Alobar) had Enchiladas.It was fantastic.The prawns are the freshest as Guaymas is a fishing town and mainly for the prawns,sadly,their are few left and the fishermen have to go further to catch them. ...

Finalmente aqui
Dec 17, 2009

... bus and it could 've been hell ,but we did it the 'Mexican way' ,which was to make it fun! When I arrived in Guaymas,Tony and Oliver (a local guy) met me.Tony had had dinner at Oscar's house and was sufficiently suffused with food and Pacifico beer.I was ...

Windstrutter's having a rest
Apr 11, 2009 (5 photos)

Tony has spent the last week preparing Windstrutter for 'laying up'.He has met the people from San Diego that we nearly dragged onto in a gale! (Glorieta Bay).It's such a small world,especially on the cruising circuit. There's lots to do to prepare a ...

Xmas
Dec 28, 2009 (5 photos)

... ,or plastic!Eventually found a great shop that did print and design by hand ,with tracing paper and had  courtesy flags.Viva Mexico!  Prepared lunch and had early guests along to help.Oscar (who's been helping with the boat work) and Cheeta (his ...

Planning to return
Oct 15, 2009

... comments. if you've travelled with us, it would be great if you could you write a testamonial. Tony plans to return to Guaymas around Mid-November and myself around Mid-December. We hope to work in the boatyard until just before Xmas, then sail across ...