April ‘96
*Additional notes may appear in italics after my mom’s initial journal entries.
A ladybug means you should check the comments at the bottom of the page to see what Mom has chimed in on after reading these!
April 1, Monday
We brought up the anchor again this morning and went around the corner to Partida, found a sandy spot and set her down. The early afternoon was spent snorkeling, Danielle wanted to go so I stayed in the dink. It’s cold water and only one wet suit and I can go anytime. John brought up 3 star fish and set them on the dink, after 5 minutes they had crept their way over the side and back into the water. Even in the dink I could see down into the crystal-clear water and all the pretty fish swimming within. John brought up a puffer-box fish. They are kinda rectangular, box looking until they are in danger, then they puff up into a big round black ball with white spots. His little fins were flapp’en and his white powerful jaw was ready to bite. Really something to see.
Later we took the dink across the north beach, the tide was out and the shoreline was covered with little pincher crabs – thousands of the critters. Danielle was barefooted and it was quite a sight, her running and jumping through them!
John got 6 small scallops along the shoreline, wrapped [them with] bacon and on the grill with the chicken and potatoes – yum!
The wind kicked up at 9:00 pm tonight and howled out of the south at 18 to 20 knots till about 3 am. I took the anchor watch until 12:30 am and John till 3 am – this anchorage is rocky and only partly sandy, so ya never know if you’ll end up dragging. Better safe than asleep and sorry. Thankfully all was well.
*I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it yet, but to this day, Mom and I will comment on windy days/nights that we are sure glad we’re not at anchor!
Thanks to photos, I remember this day well! I remember what a kick we got out of the puffer fish having two quite human-looking front teeth.
April 2, Tuesday
The wind started up again around 8:30 am – so we decded to head on in to La Paz. We were towing the dink and raised the sail. As soon as we poked our nose around the corner, we reefed the main – 10 more minutes out and we turned back to drop the main and bring the dink and motor aboard – no reason to take the chance on losing them. It is our car after all!After a couple hours it went from 20 to 10 knots and was a pleasant day. We were anchored by 2:30 pm – just in time for the La Paz Boogie!
We went into the Dock for dinner and then to Black Beard’s to listen to the jam session. Gail, who lives here, sings beautifully, she reminds us a lot of Lorrie Morgan. Sue and Peppy (Melissa), among others, sang. Great time! Samie was sitting on the windowsill with Don, (Palio), Roxanne at the table – all just “getting down!”
April 3, Wednesday
Skipped school again – shame on us! We all traipsed off into town to get the film developed. The underwater photos came out great. Had lunch and came back home. John bought a new battery for the gen-set – started it up fine, but went to run the water maker and the motor on it is gone. So now we’ve got to have that fixed.
Dan, Sue and Sonya from Hot Toddy came over for pork chops – very nice evening.
John called NEC and talked to Tim, Kent had surgery yesterday to remove part of his large intestine. But it looks promising for work this summer.
There was a full lunar eclipse of the moon, although when it came up from behind the mountain it was, for the most part, already gone, only the tip was still in the shadow.
Too bad we weren’t crossing where we could have seen it all.
April 4, Thursday
John took the water maker motor in, it looks like the bearings need replaced.
It was more or less a lazy day, Danielle laid in the sun one more time.
Tonight, we went in with the Hot Toddy crew to Black Beard’s to listen to music.
April 5, Friday
Danielle, Samie and I stayed up talking until 2:30 this morning. It has been so wonderful having her here, and I think I like it better when it’s just one of the girls at a time – it gives us more one-on-one time.
We took a taxi to the airport and Danielle was on her way to Tucson at 10:45 am.
Sam and I came back and did school, then she was off to Sonya’s for the afternoon.
The north wind blew for several hours at 18-20 knots.
Dan and Sue came over while Sonya and Sam stayed at Hot Toddy.
*I think I remember this exact day with Sonya and still have the photos she gave me of herself. You know, back when you couldn’t hop online at any ol’ time and see what was going on in your friends lives. Especially cruising - you never knew if you’d even hear from or see the other person again!
April 6, Saturday
Happy Easter
John has been filling the water tank every morning with water jugs.
I laid in the sun and took a nap – lazy day.
The bloody phone still won’t work.
We borrowed Captain Ron – always a good movie to enjoy on our own boat.
*9/10 sailors agree Captain Ron is the best sailing movie out there!
April 7, Sunday
Grandma Roxanne gave Samie a book for Easter and they had colored some eggs, so this a.m. Sam painted designs on them. I cooked a big roast dinner with all the trimmings – wonderful!
*Roxanne was so sweet to me - I’m pretty sure this was the day she also gave me a cute little teapot after we’d had a tea party or two.
April 8, Monday
Laundry day, laid in the sun – went to dinner with Dan, Sue and Sonya (Hot Toddy).
Very enjoyable evening.
April 9, Tuesday
John checked out – we did a big CC shop to head north. $1,240 pesos, or there-about or $167.00 U.S. But that will do until we get to San Carlos in about 4 to 5 weeks (maybe).
Water maker is working great – knock on wood – the problem was a burnt neutral wire. We got 3 letters today from P.V. that came up with Carousel.
After 2 weeks of the phone not working – it was a satellite problem – called Mom and Goon called – she has a date to prom with Daniel T.
Michael left today for somewhere in Colorado to work.
The crew of Hot Toddy came over for a farewell evening. Sue and Sonya will be leaving the boat, going back to the States, CA. Sue is diabetic and gets so sea sick that she is in danger of getting dehydrated. Too bad – she was great fun!
*I still love the various ways that we got our mail delivered to us! Everyone would address their letters to my Grandma and she would send them all together wherever we could arrange delivery. Sometimes it was to the marina offices, or friends who lived in the area like Crew’s Quarters, and sometimes as you can see it was like a little chain of helpers, passing things along. Stuff like that which came along with other boaters would have been arranged over the HAM radio during the morning radio nets. If I haven’t mentioned it yet, I LOVE the nets! Both HAM and VHF. As a reminder, it’s basically a way for cruisers to organize themselves, help each other out, barter and trade, find crew, get local information and advice, pass along information and weather details, etc. I wonder how much all that has changed. I’ve actually considered getting a HAM radio just so I can listen to the cruiser’s nets in the morning. 🙃 I don’t know how much I enjoyed it at the time, but I love my memories of waking up to that damn static and white noise at 5 am! I could hear the weather updates and other such info being passed along, and everyone’s call signs as they joined and left the conversation. For those who don’t know, you have to announce yourself (your call sign) on the radio and wait to be acknowledged. Sometimes you can hear them, but they can’t hear you or vice versa; and because there’s no real way for them to know if you’re done talking or the signal is bad, you say “over” when you’re done speaking. When you’re exiting the conversation entirely, you indicate that with “over and out,” preceded by your call sign. In Dad’s case, KB7ZIK and Mom was KB7ZIL. They were referred to often as ZIK and ZIL, kinda like Jack and Jill. Cute! I was studying to get my HAM license for a bit but apparently got sidetracked with other interests as that hasn’t happened (yet).
*It’s so funny looking back at how unwilling most people were to be on camera - back when regular, everyday people filming friends wasn’t exactly a regular thing. The video camera was more of a special occasion thing and used more among family than anyone else. So when friends or especially strangers had a camera on you - people mostly got uncomfortable (in my experience, anyway). But I’m glad we have these clips, it’s always a treat to have these little time capsules - even more so when there are few, if only one to remember someone by.
April 10, Wednesday
We called ‘Chelle this morning.
Pulled up anchor and headed to Ensenada Grande. Fluky winds all the way until we got to the anchorage – 10 knots out of the NE. Palio, Don and Roxanne, are with us and we all headed to the beach. Don and Samie hiked up to a cave.
We had caught a sierra mackerel; had that and pork chops with our goodies. Samie helped Roxanne bake a peach upside-down cake.
*For whatever time I lost with extended family while out sailing, I am so grateful for all the cruising family I gained and all the cool random things they taught me. Baking, crafting, making pasta from scratch, painting, drawing, synchronized swimming, kayaking, sign language and I’m sure many other things I’m not recalling at the moment. I suspect this has some (a lot) to do with my wide variety of interests and ways of looking at life and the world around me. If you’re a cruising friend of ours reading this and you took me under your wing at any point of our cruising - THANK YOU! I love and appreciate your presence in my life and I am all the better for it. 🥰
April 11, Thursday
It’s back to school and hard at it to finish these last 40 lessons before we get to San Carlos.
John and Don went diving – John’s first time in the last year and a half. They came back with 25 scallops, so I wrapped them in bacon and BBQed ‘em over on Palio along with Don’s spaghetti.
There was no wind tonight after a NE blew all day at 15 to 20 knots. So we slept good after the Caramel blew in a big swell and bounced us around the night before.
Oh, when I talked to Mom the other night, she said we had a post card from Janice and Arne.
April 12, Friday
We left Ensenada Grande around 9:15 am and anchored at Los Islotes for a couple hours while Don and John scuba’ed with the sea lions. John had several he was playing with – they were using Don’s scooters, which push them around under water. He had a great time. I stayed in the dink this time.
We motored over flat seas to Isla San Francisco where we anchored in 18 feet of crystal-clear water. John dove and cleaned the propeller while Sam and I snorkeled and saw millions of sea worms, a moray eel and a needle fish, along with hundreds of puffer fish.
Palio came over for happy hour. At 9 pm the south wind is picking up at 7k. I guess it blew pretty good – 15 to 20 knots – we slept through it, but Palio was up on watch, but they are out farther.
April 13, Saturday
The last couple of months I’ve tried to find a nickname for Samie and tonight when John called her “Buffett” it stuck! She is always listening to Jimmy Buffett music – and thus she will be known as BUFFETT!
Some little fitting on the gen-set intake broke and we had water squirting – so that was John’s project today.
The guys went scuba-ing while the girls went shelling on the beach.
Tom on Island Trader brought us some ice cream from La Paz. So he came over for dinner.
Called Brenda, she said Steve is always out of town, that’s why we don’t get him on the ham. Mom had called her with Shine’s address – he’s in Loveland, Colorado. Brenda and Steve almost took a job there and say it’s a nice town and beautiful.
April 14, Sunday
Happy 22nd Chelle!
Last night the wind blew 10-15 k out of the north all night.
We left the crowded (20 boats) of Isla San Francisco at 8:15 am. Zero wind as we started out, but was toot’en it up to 20 k from the north before we had our hook set at San Evaristo. All the other boats here are anchored over in the south cove, so we got a pick of the center here in the north cove – Palio came in behind us.
As soon as we were set, 10:10 am, we started school.
We remember last November being here with True Blue, Nanamuk, Ananda, Maiden Voyage and Quest. We sure are missing Nanamuk and True Blue on this return up to San Carlos.
John got some shrimp from a shrimp boat anchored here, he also caught a trigger fish and Don got more scallops, so we had kabobs.
The wind is still at 10-15 k at 8:30 pm. I would like a couple of nights with no wind.
Talked to Steve for a bit tonight.
John Roach called, all is well, we got a good refund on the last year’s taxes, but it will go to pay on 94s taxes owed.
*Once a parrot head, always a parrot head!
When I originally prepping this month’s details way back in August (sorry for the delay - I got distracted while life was happening!), I was revisiting my peak Jimmy Buffet memories: falling in love with more and more of his songs as I got my little hands on new cassette tapes, dancing and signing along and just loving how good his music made me feel…. The timing was wild, because on September 1, 2023, Jimmy packed up his bags and took his last sail toward the horizon, just in time for the " target="_blank">Labor Day weekend show. ❤ My little Buffett heart was broken and it still hurts to write about (I’m not crying, you’re crying!) Music has always had a profound effect on me and I have so much respect and admiration for the artists who have brought that music to the world. Music has the most amazing power to unite people, to cross language barriers, to bring all kinds and walks of life together in a space of harmony in a way that nothing else I’ve experienced can. The echo of this resounding loss went on for weeks - So many stories were being shared by fans across the globe who had met him, experienced him, been inspired by him, etc. By all accounts, he was just as absolute treasure and I cry because I’m so grateful for his presence in this world and even grateful to have been witness to him in the same lifetime, if that makes sense - not like an artist who’s already long passed, but one who I actually got you experience in their lifetime and to have seen live in concert!
SIP (Sail in Peace), Jimmy Buffet! ❤🦜
April 15, Monday
John walked up to the tienda while Buffett and I did school.
Equalized the batteries.
Wind continued to blow from the NW today, 10-20k. 3 other boats tried anchoring here in the north cove, but with the swirly winds, left and went to the south bay.
April 16, Tuesday
John, Don (Palio), and Tom (Island Trader) went scuba-ing around the north point. Buffett and I snorkeled around the boat. Happy hour was on Palio with fish, scallops and snacks.
Shine called, he likes where he’s at ok and seems to like the job. It was so good to hear his voice.
The wind was 5k from the SE with a little swell roll’en in. 96° today.
Goon called too, she’s happy and looking forward to her prom date.
April 17, Wednesday
We weighed anchor and left San Evaristo at 7:10 am, flat seas and no wind the first couple hours. Then W at 10k – shift 8k N and died out as we came in at 12:15 and dropped the hook in the north anchorage.
Between the Baja and San Jose we went through a pod of small dolphins, 4 whales, maybe minkie, and a shark swimming the surface. Beautiful day.
I think maybe we have broke away from the “herd”, there was no one else in the anchorage upon our arrival, and now it’s us, Palio, and Island Trader. Manuel came by, as always, in his panga to say hello, and tomorrow we should have lobster.
John dropped his sun glasses over the side, threw off his shirt and bandana and in he went for the rescue. Said it was refreshing! I thought it was funny, we have several more of the same sun glasses – but NOT red, white and blue!
No luck on any fish.
*I will always love reading about and remembering the locals coming out to greet the boats and get acquainted. It always made me laugh when some people in the States would ask how we weren’t scared in Mexico or how we felt safe because we had really great interactions. Of course there were some sour incidents here and there, that’s hard to get away from entirely, but on the whole we typically felt safe and made so many friends with the locals all over.
April 18, Thursday
John changed out the impeller on the raw water pump main engine, we’ve noticed the engine temp running a little hot. Also changed the solenoid on the gen-set, but that didn’t seem to be the problem. He thinks it’s the relay and it’s not always making the connection to start. Although it’s running now and he won’t change that unless he has to. He was in the engine room for around 3 hours. Thank goodness he doesn’t have to stand on his head to do the work like most boats.
This morning was so cold, only 65° but seemed like 50°. The days are getting hot if there’s no breeze.
We walked around on the beach for a bit.
Kochap, David and Trish came in this afternoon and came by for a couple hours. They are headed south - bummer.
There are 10 or 12 boats in the bay tonight.
Oh – Tom Island Trader saw two Orcas swim past the mouth of the bay while he was diving the reef. Samie was so excited cuz they’re here – yet bummed cuz she missed them. I sure hope that she sees some – her dream!
*Over the years it seemed like everyone around us was seeing Orcas but us, it was torture cause I wanted so badly to see them with my own two eyes! I still haven’t seen any in the wild, but one day! One day it’ll happen!
April 19, Friday
We left Los Gatos (Bay of the Cat) at 8 am and arrived at Agua Verde at 12:40. En route we had zero wind and smooth, flat seas which enabled us to see much ocean life. A pod of small dolphins towards the Baja between us and Island Trader – several dozens of big mantas floating on the surface – none of whom would jump for the camera - off to the sea side near Isla Santa Catalina, about 20 miles to the east. Looking through the binoculars, they were the huge dolphins, for a while I thought they were Orcas – but could see no white. They were jumping – flipping and really putting on a show – too bad they were so far away!
There are 6 boats counting ourselves now in Agua Verde. The wind has picked up out of the north and is blowing 5k in here, but 20-25k on the outside. Galatea, Loren and Hillary – Abientot, Ed and Randi are on their way in here – we haven’t seen them since San Carlos.
We finally met the other s/v Wandrin’ Star, Wayne and Leslie. The boat was also named after the Lee Marvin song in Paint Your Wagon.
It still strikes me odd that the sun can go down on the port (or starboard) side of the boat AND come up on the same side! All depending on the tide coming and going and the wind direction.
April 20, Saturday
John snorkeled and came back with several treats.
Tom came over for dinner.
Not a lot happening in Agua Verde!
April 21, Sunday
Island Trader left Agua Verde this morning about 7 am and just as we were ready to haul in the anchor, he called to say it was blow’en 25-30k out there. Needless to say, we stayed put and Tom came back. As hard as it blew out beyond the point, 5-7k was all we had inside – nice and calm.
John, Tom and Hillary (Galatea) went clamming. John never saw any, but the others gathered up a few.
We went to the beach for a while in the afternoon.
Goon called in tears – the dress she bought in Flagstaff for the prom is too short for her dad and Melissa, the fuddy-duddies!
April 22, Monday
Tom left again this morning and John went to the beach to check out the other side – it’s flat and calm today so we left Agua Verde at 8:00 am headed for Escondido. It was a motor boat ride all the way – zero wind.
We passed through several pods of dolphins. I think I got some good video shots of them under the bow.
We made it into Escondido and anchored at 12:30 pm. 21 miles = 4.5 hours.
We all, Tom too, went into the trailer park and had a late lunch – early dinner and I did a small shop.
I talked to Steve on the HAM while John (0), Samie (3) and Tom (4) went fishing, John got skunked!
April 23, Tuesday
John called Kent and he also definitely has a job, working in the field this year.
John and Samie went in to get ice and beer – they came back with Kristen K. She’s 22 and a marine biologist down here doing studies on the whales. She spent several hours on our boat talking to Samie about how fascinating the whales and other marine life is. She’s a real nice person and very interesting to talk to.
Shine called for just a minute.
*I remember being so excited to meet Kristen, a marine biologist! I constantly had my nose in our reference books for fish, shells, starfish, dolphins, whales, etc. I have always been naturally curious and ready to ask all of the questions about how things work or why they do things the way they do - I’m sure I had boatloads of questions for her! Lol of course the only detail I remember from our visit was her explaining how they take samples from whale poop to extract information about the whale’s health and other factors and that whale poop is pink! There’s a chance I thought she was teasing me, ‘cause that just seemed so funny! It makes sense though, they eat krill, which are pink like shrimp. How sweet of her to stay and chat with us for a good while! She agreed to be my pen pal and wrote to me a few times. I cannot express enough how great it was to be treated more like an adult than a kid by all these great humans. It was really good for me. So, I dug through my letters and found a couple! She wrote to me twice from Hawaii, the second letter specifically from a tent in the rain forest in the middle of a storm and the other told me how after studying fin whales in Mexico, she studied blue whales near the Channel Islands in CA and about a time she woke up on Santa Rosa Island to see three little foxes looking down at her! After that, she went to Hawaii where she was studying birds when she wrote me. I’m sure I was absolutely tickled to get these letters from her!
Side note - if you’ve ever written me a letter, there’s a 9/10 chance I still have it! It might seem silly to pack around for all these years, but it’s such a treasure to go through them every now and again and remember all kinds of little details of loved ones that tend to slip away with time. 🥰
April 24, Wednesday
Happy B-day Grandma Davis
We left Escondido at 9:30 am headed to Ballandra on the north end of Isla Carmen. The only sea life was bait fish by the millions and a dozen or so 10-inch squid – we’ve never seen ‘em that big. We anchored at 12:30 – the only ones in the bay until Island Trader and Tumble Weed (their last name is Spear). Tom had gotten a bunch of clams and they were eating them raw – gross!
April 25, Thursday
We took our boat across to Loreto this a.m. at 8:00 – Tom went with us to get fuel and a few supplies – we were back and anchored by 1:30 pm.
John, Buffett and Tom went snorekling again, even Buffett can spot the clams.
April 26, Friday
Just before leaving Ballandra, a pod of dolphins swam and jumped their way across the mouth of the bay. We weighed anchor and were underway at 7:30 am. There is some fog sitting on the water next to the mountains.
Just out of Ballandra we saw a huge “boil” of bait fish on the surface, looks like the water is boiling.
Tom broke a bolt on his alternator just past Isla Coronado, so we all sat still in the water for an hour and 40 minutes while John took him over a bolt and helped him get it fixed. Once we got him going again, the fog settled in all around with a half mile visibility all the way to the bay of San Juanico. We came all the way in with the help of radar. Once inside, it was clear enough to anchor safely.
Last year it was blowing 20k so we circled and left. It’s beautiful in here, lots of little island rocks to snorkel. Which we did some this afternoon. Tom found several clams and we had happy hour on his boat with clams fixed every which way. Then we putted around in the dink fishing – no luck. The fog has rolled in again.
*I remember Tom and Dad encouraging me to try the clams, but I don’t know if I ever did. They would put a dab of hot sauce in the shell and then chuck ‘em back! They seemed pretty tickled about it in my recollection - I understand now that it was probably one of those moments where they were thinking, “How lucky are we?!” How amazing to wake up each day on those beautiful blue waters and to be treated to the freshest and cheapest seafood around!
April 27, Saturday
Samie had a test in school today. She did very good considering the way we’ve been doing school – just 1, maybe 2 days and then a couple days off. We plan to stay here for a few days and get most of the last 10 days done.
John and Tom went out on the point diving with the hookah, came back with lobster. Tom got 3 huge slipper lobsters.
John borrowed the hookah and cleaned the bottom of the boat real good.
Tom and Jim and Kitty (Summer Wind) all came over for happy hour. Lobster, scallops, fish, clams and potato salad. What a feast!
The wind blew out of the west all of last night at 10-12k. Turned and blew from the east all day at 10-12k. Now at 8:30 pm it has switched back to the west.
Peggy is going to the prom tonight. We called, she’s excited. Melissa had sewed some lace on the bottom of the dress she bought, now it goes to her knees. She got the yellow rose that I had Jo send her. She has called 3 times tonight while she’s waiting for Daniel, her date to get there – says she’s nervous. Her dress is black and white and her hair is in a French twist and I know she looks beautiful! I wish I could see her.
I forgot to write about the first night in Ballandra – we heard whales singing off and on through the night. It was beautiful and peaceful music, sounding similar to a soft flute. I even woke Samie up at 4:00 am so she could hear it.
John thinks it was the wind whistling through the rigging, but Tom also heard something similar – so whatever it was, it was beautiful!
*I love the reminders of how great we have it now as far as communication and keeping in touch. We were lucky enough to get phone calls and updates through the HAM radio - I don’t think we could have imagined being able to log online (internet was still pretty damn new at this point in time, kids!) and see updates on everyone’s lives. I think that would have blown our minds!
I love that Mom woke me up to hear this magic and I remember Dad being uncertain. It’s hard to tell with all the noises a boat makes - but being that Tom heard it, too, I think there’s a pretty decent chance it was whale song.
April 28, Sunday
John and Tom went out on the point again to dive. Later we took the video camera and taped all of the beautiful colors and different variety of shapes and textures of this big bay in San Juanico. Later we snorkeled - so many beautiful colored fish, eel, big green needle nose, butterfly fish, fan coral, puffers and tons of star fish. It’s so amazing, this underwater world.
*For the readers born before the year 2000, you should remember how we used to record home videos from the small tape onto a regular VHS tape. Then, in order to “wipe” the small tape clean, we would record over the other footage with “blank” video - thus the random clips from floor level or the CSPAN footage - before we used the tape again. I thought about editing those out to make the video shorter, but I like the reminder of how far we’ve come technologically in 30 years!
April 29, Monday
The night was a beautiful, calm, silky paradise covered with millions of bright, twinkling stars. This morning STARTED in the same tranquil way, but by 10 am, the north wind had started on a rampage! Tom in Island Trader left around 8:30 while it was calm, but before he made it to Saquicismunde just 6 miles up the Baja, he had up to 45k of angry wind. At one point, he was only making 2 knots forward progress. He did make it though. By noon, even behind the protection of the mountains, we were getting a steady 30k – and up to 35 and 40! There are white-caps breaking in here as the winds come down over the mountain only 1/8 mile in front of us. It’s really raging and breaking something fierce on the outside. This is a very good reminder of our crossing last year when we spent 22 hours like this underway from Mazatlan to La Paz.
Abientot and Galatea left Escondido this morning, but only 8 miles from here turned around and headed back to the south anchorage at Isla Coronado to get out of the 30-35k they had.
We spend the day on the boat, out of the wind. John did little projects, I baked cookies.
The wind finally laid down and died out at 8 pm when the sun set. It stayed calm all night so we were able to sleep.
April 30, Tuesday
Samie made a cross-stitch with a sail boat (Wandrin’ Star) and letters in the saying “Life in paradise is just right.” It is a beautiful creation that she made with no pattern, just her imagination! We put it inside a scallop shell and varnished it in to preserve – in another shell, we varnished in a boat card and strung them together to make a hanging chime sort of set up. Anyway, we will take these over to the cruiser’s shrine and leave as a memento of our being here.
Around 1 pm, the north wind kicked in again and blew 20-27k until around 3:30 or so, then laid down flat again.
The days are reaching up to 92° now and just barely cooling off at night.
We had “radio games” going on in the anchorage tonight with Abientot and Galatea playing songs on the VHF. It was a silly, fun time.
The normal west breeze blew from land tonight at 10k.
*Awe, I love the “radio games” on the VHF. It was kind of like our version of a group chat!
I really enjoyed cross-stitching for a couple years, my step mom had taught me and I remember loving all the patterns and designs you could do. It’s such a calming, meditative practice and I always felt so proud when I was done! I still have my little kit of supplies!
