We arrived in Ensenada this morning, after motoring overnight
for 65 miles from San Diego.
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| AEOLI on the GPS crossing the border |
We arrived at the Marina at Ensenada Cruiseport and upon
checking in with the dock master, we found that part of the marina service is
to help you get through immigration, port captain, and customs – not bad at all
for a slip fee of $50/night. They compiled the papers required for each step,
drove us to the Centro Integral de Servicios, and stayed with us while we went
through each step. We had found this document on the web describing the whole
process, and it pretty much covers exactly what we went through.
Other advice is to ensure you have extra copies of liability
insurance (although the marina office helped us make copies of all our
documents), and that you bring some small change to make photocopies of the
tourist visas at the Centro Integral de Servicios (photocopies are required for
the temporary import permit). Also, for the temporary import permit, you will
need to fill in a list of the equipment on board (we had prepared a list with
serial numbers, but only the engine serial number ended up being necessary). We
could have gotten through the process without the help of the marina, since we
had copies of all the documents required, but it certainly helped to make it a
painless process. Total cost to check-in
was $120, including tourist visas, temporary import permit (TIP) and yacht
arrival fee with port captain (plus $50 for moorage).
We were finally able to hoist our Mexican courtesy flag
after checking in!
We had ridiculously awesome 9 peso (12.5 pesos/dollar) fish
tacos at a stand recommended by the marina staff (El Fenix at Av. Espinoza and
6ta.), did our town walkabout and our first grocery store run in Mexico. We are
planning to head out tomorrow for several multi-day runs: first to Turtle Bay,
then to Bahia Magdelena, then to Cabo. We don’t have too much leeway for time before
the wedding festivities begin!
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| Something for Germaine to look forward to in Mexico! |
Congratulations international travelers! Hola!
ReplyDeleteI lost track of my months and didn't realize you had 2 November posts. Sounds like the winds had to have been light for you all to motor to Ensenada; but happy that you and the Mukilteo Bear are there and customs check-in went well! Thanks for the planned schedule on your way to Cabo. Received several books from Amazon today for Matt. Will bring those with us to Cabo. Fish tacos are the best; discovered those in Hawaii, but not for 9 pesos. Try the Bohemia (clara) or Pacifico; (Dos Equis;Victoria; and Barillita are on the bottom of the beer list).
Nostrovia!
GO BLUE!!!
Yay, you made it to Mexico!! We are looking forward to sharing some of those fish tacos! And sweetberry!! Haha!!. I think Mukilteo bear is over dressed for Mexico, you need to get him a swimsuit ;). I had to explain to Vianne that you hoisted the Mexican flag to show your 'good boat manners'.
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