ADVENTURE SURF’S UP
Reflecting back on our three months in Costa Rica – months that were by turns mellow, adventurous and frustrating, but most definitely worthwhile – it would be easy to forget that we had never actually planned to go there at all. My partner Liam and I had our sights firmly set on the South Pacific when we began our cruise from Canada’s west coast in 2019. In the spring of 2020 we were in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, mere weeks away from making the leap into the big blue. Wild Rye, our Wauquiez Centurion 32, was packed to the gunwales with spare parts and provisions. That, of course, is when the COVID-19 pandemic rearranged our priorities and thoroughly scrambled our tight three-year-circumnavigation itinerary.
After spending the remainder of 2020 back home in Canada while Wild Rye waited patiently on the hard in Mexico, we knew we had to get back on the water or risk letting our dreams of travel slip away.
By the spring of 2021, our options were still limited. The majority of
