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A Terrible Place - Part 2 - Out of the Blue

As another sunset approached our anchorage at super-wild Isla San Pedro Mártir, and the birds began to return to their roosts for the...

Chica Jo

Apr 27, 20228 min read

A Terrible Place: Part 1 - Into the Blue

terrible (adj.): late 14c., "causing terror, awe, or dread; frightful," from Old French terrible (12c.), from Latin terribilis...

Chica Jo

Apr 20, 20228 min read

The Monkey on My Back

I swear, I was just minding my own business, doing my early-morning, power swim around a rocky point off the Seri people’s now...

Chica Jo

Mar 24, 20228 min read

The Troll

Do you remember the children’s story, The Three Billy Goats Gruff? Basically, three goats are longing to feast in the greener grass on...

Chica Jo

Feb 1, 202210 min read

Sand Dollars - On Ballast and Buoyancy

I failed at something not only important to me but to my sense of identity as a citizen-scientist and environmental educator. I’ve been...

Chica Jo

Dec 22, 20217 min read

Losing My $#!+

One of my operative rules for myself when writing is to be profoundly honest even if, no, especially if it is difficult. Well, this one...

Chica Jo

Nov 10, 20219 min read

To Die Laughing

Yep. That’s how I reckon I’ll go out of this absurd world: in a fit of uncontrollable guffaws that become my final gasps. I’ve had some...

Chica Jo

Oct 7, 202113 min read

Aquanaut Moms

I’m writing under a chlorophyll-filled canopy of redwood trees, but my mind is on something I found on the beach near La Paz this spring....

Chica Jo

Aug 8, 20215 min read

Night Snorkel? What could go wrong?

I’m afraid to write this. I’m worried that if I’m not writing about a jaw-dropping, edge-of-your-seat encounter with large and loveable...

Chica Jo

Jul 16, 20215 min read

Turning Ugliness Into Beauty

Keep Reading To Find Out What This Is It’s been an interesting few weeks since my underwater dance with a humpback whale (plus escape...

Chica Jo

Jun 11, 20214 min read

Save the Whale: An Existential Tangle

This blog post is coming from Paul at Triplefin's helm. He has a breathtaking story to tell about something that just happened. You may...

Chica Jo

May 28, 20219 min read

Dancing With Whale: Revi Part 2

Yep. That's me dancing with a Humpback. Smooches Gracias to Frida for capturing the most sublime and wondrous moments of my life!...

Chica Jo

May 11, 20219 min read

Sleeping With Sharks: Revi Part 1

Paul's pic of a couple tranquil whitetip reef sharks The sharks are coming, sailor's promise, but first it’s time to reveal my vulnerable...

Chica Jo

May 10, 20216 min read

Devil Fish: What's In A Name?

A pack of wolves, a rabble of gnats, a murder of crows, a flock of birds, a tower of giraffes, a stand of trees, a quiver of cobras, a...

Chica Jo

Apr 19, 20214 min read

Flash of Inspiration

Our eyes met and we shared a brief watery waltz along the steep-edged boulder bank of Isla Carmen’s Punta Perico. I was wearing my drab...

Chica Jo

Mar 28, 20213 min read

Testing the Waters

Triplefin's dingy at the ready along Isla San Jose's wild East coast It’s been a long year of social isolation for Paul and me aboard...

Chica Jo

Mar 12, 20213 min read

The Most Critical Ecosystem You've Never Heard Of

One warm May night while anchored in Bahia Santo Domingo, the gateway to Baja's Bahia Conception, I dragged Paul away from boat work to...

Chica Jo

Feb 4, 20213 min read

A Garden of Eely Delights

This past April we sailed Triplefin around the Sea of Cortez' wild side of Isla Carmen and anchored in colorful Bahia Cobre (Copper Bay)....

Chica Jo

Jan 13, 20212 min read

Gringo Hallucinations & War on Drugs

If you leave your boat to travel inland, into the wildly mountainous regions of Mexico’s heartland, you may find yourself among some...

Chica Jo

Dec 23, 20202 min read

My Sick Dream of Holothurian Revenge

Unlike most of my posts, the following is NOT suitable for kids or the highly sensitive among us. Adults, please enjoy my frighteningly...

Chica Jo

Dec 11, 20203 min read

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