We woke up at 6 am, very calm very still. Had breakfast and got underway with the anchor up at 7:10. We crossed Bahia Los Angeles and as we were heading out, we could see into Puerto Don Juan, we saw our friends were still there, S/V Inia. Christina and Michel. So, we decided to head in for a day. We Listened to a sermon from Northeast on our way this morning as way of doing our devotions.
We arrived and had the anchor down by 8:15 or so, and started planning our day here. We are going for a kayak ride across to the beach and then a hike. We expect to be back for lunch.
I ran the GO Pro on the way over and all the way into the anchorage, I plan to do some editing of that video to see if I can get it small enough to upload to Vimeo next week or the week after when we are in Santa Rosalia.
Well, that is a lot of work to figure out what to do with the video and pictures from the GO Pro! I have a couple of hours worth of video, and about 740 still pictures. That was about 3 hours of GO Pro action. Way more than I can use for the blog, and I am limited to 500 MB per week to upload to Vimeo for video. My first attempt at speeding up the crossing from Bahia Las Angeles to Puerto Don Juan wound up at 3.54 GB. Slightly more than I can upload to Vimeo. Second version still 1 GB. I may have to pay for a plan to allow bigger files to be uploaded. 500 MB video files are pretty small.
After dinner, we played a game of Baja Rummy. Renee’ won! In the middle of the game, I asked for a Gin and Tonic, we are out of the Gin we brought with us, and this was going to be the first drink from the bottle we found on the boat when we got it. We found it in the engine room, and figured “what can go wrong with liquor?” Well, it was not Gin, not even bad Gin, it was gasoline. Yuck! Oh well, when we get to Santa Rosalia, we will get to a liquor store and get some gin.
We have decided to go to Santa Rosalia and check into the marina. This will mean two weeks of quarantine. We don’t know exactly what that will look like, but the guy at the marina said, that yes we could use the bathrooms, get propane and use the laundry facilities. The downsides are we will have to stay until the port is reopened, and we will have 120 miles to go north from there, just to get back here. Upsides, include cell service, shore power, groceries, propane, (we are down to one tank), laundry etc. One of the bigger drawbacks to where we are right now, is no internet, which means no FaceTime with the kids/grandkids, no phone, other than satellite, and while we have 150 minutes per month, I am pretty confident that we have used most of that already, and it is only 1/2 way through the month. The minutes do not carry over, (even though we did not use more than 10 minutes per month for the first 4 months) I think it is about $1.50 per minute after the included minutes.
We are planning on leaving Sunday and going to Puerto San Francisquito (45ish miles) then leaving early Monday morning and going straight to Santa Rosalia (70ish miles)
We do have room for guests, if anyone is interested in visiting and spending a week or so with us, drop us a line and we will coordinate. What you have to do/have is you need a sport and will need to be able to get to where we are when you are going to be down. When we know what time frame you are thinking about we can let you know where we expect to be so that you can make your travel arrangements.
If you want to know where we are, click this link:
https://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/Make_Me_Laugh_Again
Yay!