August 15, 2011
In keeping with our promise to update the blog more often, here’s the latest.
We were busy last week. We had visitors from San Diego. Our friend/broker Tom sailed his boat to Marina Coral along with a couple of friends, Ken and Ryan. It was different and fun having guests who had their own boat. They also had another boat arrive the next day along with 4 or 5 of their friends, who also happen to be friends with Fernando, one of our friends from E dock.
So we did a lot of sight seeing and socializing. Ryan bought a big halibut from the fish market and cooked it on the bar-b-que on paper. It is the first we’ve heard of cooking on paper on a b-b-q, but it worked out great. The following night we had dinner, brats, on their friend’s boat, Tara. We were lucky in that they put us all on the same dock.
Now that they are gone, we miss them. But Tom says he’s retiring next year and we hope to meet up with him somewhere in the Sea of Cortez. We think we’re going to meet up with a lot of people in the Sea of Cortez.
We’ve still got some work to do on the boat. We’re considering getting a generator/watermaker. Expensive, but what is the price of independence?
No new videos this week. Sharon did see some porpoises in the marina, just behind our boat. They were darker in colour and bigger than the dolphins. There were only two (or perhaps 3, counting a baby) and they were very quiet. We’d heard they were coming in after the anchovies. The water is teaming with those tiny, shiny little fish.
We say a poor injured (or something) pelican, in the slip across from us. Poor thing just kept swimming around in circles. Maybe he was blind. One of the security staff was going to call someone to help it. Not sure what happened but the next time we looked, it was gone.
One of the marina workers caught (is that the right word) a nice, big fat starfish the other day. It was just clinging to the piling. Everyone got involved in the operation, bring poles and nets and buckets. It took some doing and the help of half a dozen people, but he was able to extradite it from the piling in one piece to take home for his aquarium.
Piggy is getting less shy everyday. He loves to go outside on deck and he now goes out during the day. He sleeps in the cockpit most of the time. He still runs from everything, but some of our dock mates have seen him now.
We should be going to San Diego this Thursday to pick up a bunch of stuff on our shopping lists. It might be our second to last visit for supplies before we head south. We’ve starting stock-piling. We need to get a lot more cat food and litter. Not to mention Miracle Whip, bagels and everything else non-Mexican we can think of. Also need to get some boat parts.
Signing off for now.
Update – Aug 20
Once again we’ve taken too long to update the blog. So, here goes, assuming we have a good Internet connection.
We went to San Diego for the day on Wednesday, then went to the boat yard the next day. Cleaned the boat, got new dinghy davits installed and had neighbours over for dinner, so you see, we really are busy.
We’re re-evaluating our plans to go south. We might still decide to go with the Ba Ha Ha Ha and still take a captain along. It would be a slower trip, but with lots of learning and experience along the way, not to mention parties, etc.
A couple of photos for your enjoyment:
Cats in the cockpit.
One of our Canadian neighbours on Canada Day, can you see the flags? Even the dog had the Canadian flag on..
Gotta go and post this….
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