Cruising Again

2/28/15

Now we are cruising.  I woke up and dug out the inflatable kayak.  Cooper helped me blow it up and then he jumped in and started paddling for the beach.  He didn’t get far, as he forgot to untie from the boat.  After Cooper returned and started school with Susan, I took a long paddle around the bay and stopped and talked to a guy who rode out the last hurricane in his trailer on the beach.  The 100 knot winds moved his trailer about 15 inches he said. And strewed everything outside the trailer all over the hillside behind. Takes all kinds…  After Cooper finished school (sometimes a battle) we went snorkeling.  The water was OK in shorty wetsuits. Cooper’s is a little big and he got cold.  We saw fish and rays and a giant porcupine fish that moved so slow that Susan was able to “pet” it.  Her theory was that it had to be really old to be that big and slow. One of the genoa sheets cover parted on the passage so I re-purposed the Spinnaker sheets which rarely get used. New sheets are in order for next season. Flushed the propylene glycol from the water maker and it’s making water for us. Things are going well and we are starting to slow down a bit.  Still not sure if we will be heading North or South this trip. There is no phone or Internet without a hitchhike to Mulege.

Finding Treasures

This porcupine fish is roughly the size of a football.  Susan was able to swim up and touch it.

Susan picked up this starfish and it really freaked Cooper for some reason.  My Aliens reference was totally lost on him :)