Back in Point Loma!!!!

We arrived back in Point Loma on Thursday afternoon. It was about a 10 hour trip up from Ensenada - with finally some wind out of the south! After clearing customs we headed over to our guest spot at SWYC. As we were docking a bunch of our friends magically appeared and welcomed us home - it was wonderful!! The boys are happy to be back and hanging with their friends again. Rich and I have begun the transition back to a "normal" life. We now both have cell phones and one car.

This picture is of Point Loma as we approached it on Thursday - a nice sight to see!!

Here's what is left of our second Mexican courtesy flag. Guess they don't stand up too well to high 20ish knot winds for very long!!!

Ensenada

We arrived in Ensenada this morning right around 7am. Eleven hours, not too shabby!!! We had to wait for the marina office to open to get a slip, so we tied up to an open dock for two hours. We're all settled in here now, and the marina is processing our exit paperwork from Mexico. We'll be staying at the guest dock at the yacht club until the end of July when our regular slip at the Bay Club opens up. So sometime late Thursday afternoon, we'll be arriving at guest dock #3. We're having drinks and dinner tonight with Manana, whom we've travelled up the coast with since Bahia Santa Maria.

One More Overnight!

We're sitting in Cabo Colonet waiting for it to be 8pm. At that time we're leaving here for Ensenada. We can't leave too early, or we'll get there before the marina opens! We came up 30 miles this morning from Isla San Martin. The weather was cool, and the marine layer was pretty high making for pretty good viability most of the time. We're all looking forward to getting to Ensenada. A nice long shower and dinner out! We'll leave early Thursday morning for SD, so we'll be home for our anniversary
on Friday!

Our current position is: 30 degrees 57.69'N; 116 degrees 17.39'W.

Rich, Deb, Kyle & Ryan

Isla San Martin

We are currently anchored in Hasslers Cove on Isla San Martin. We didn't leave Isla San Geronimo until daylight this morning. The winds didn't really calm down over night, so it would've been a rocky/rolly trip. We will leave here tomorrow morning at 7 (we get to sleep in) and head 30 miles to Punta Colonett. We'll hang out there for the day and then leave at 7PM for Ensenada - that will be about a 13-14 hour trip. We'll arrive in Ensenada early Tuesday morning and pending getting all the paperwork
done, we'll depart early Thursday morning for San Diego. They boys can't wait to get to Ensenada - they are getting anxious to get off the boat. In the past 10 day, they've only been off for a few hours while we were in Turtle Bay (Carson - I made it down the dock without falling in a hole this time!). They've separated all they peso's from their dollars and are ready to hit the town to spend their loot!

Our Current Position Is: 30 degrees 29.16'N; 116 degrees 06.12'W

Rich, Deb, Kyle & Ryan

200 Miles to Go

We left Cedros Island last evening around 8pm and arrived Isla San Jeronimo this afternoon around 12:30. The overnight part of the trip had calm winds and calm seas making for some good time. We were originally headed to San Carlos, but about 5 miles out we (us, Manana, & Brendon) decided to make good use of the flat seas and head on up here to San Jeronimo. The part of the passage that got interesting was the last part. We had to pass inside the "dreaded Sacramento Reef", in fog, with pangas
running all around - we had about 1/4 viability. Good thing for radar and the fancy function called "trail". Brendon was in the lead since one of their crew had run this route before. We were able to follow their trail right into the anchorage. The anchorage at Cedros was very pretty, but very noisy. That part of the shoreline is home to MANY sea lion, seals, and elephant seals. It was really neat to see an elephant seal in the wild - they are really huge!!!

Our current plan puts us in Ensenada on Monday afternoon and back to SD on Thursday. We plan to hit the customs dock around 3-4pm.

Our current position is: 29 degrees 47'N; 115 degrees 47'W.

Rich, Deb, Kyle & Ryan

Turtle Bay

We are currently anchored in Turtle Bay along with Manana and Brendan. We took on fuel today and went ashore to give the kids some running time! We're heading out again tomorrow morning at 4am heading for the north end of Cedros Island. From their we'll either cross to San Carlos or San Quintien - depending on how the winds are. If all goes well, we SHOULD be back in Ensenada by mid next week. On our way to Turtle today we found ourselves in the biggest school of dolphin yet - they're were hundreds
of them!

Our current position is: 27 degrees 41'N; 114 degrees 53.3'W

Rich, Deb, Kyle & Ryan

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Bahhia Asuncion

Well we left Bahia Santa Maria yesterday morning just after 9 am. We just dropped our hook here in Bahia Asuncion just around 5:30 pm today. We had every variety of wind you can think of during our trip. We had sustained 22 knots late in the afternoon and dying down to 8 knots in the early morning. We decided (along with Manana) to come in here instead of Turtle Bay since we could arrive here during with daylight and Turtle Bay would be after midnight. Apparently there are alot of lobster pots
near the entrance to Turtle Bay - and you sure can't see them at night! We'll leave here tomorrow morning around 4 am and head the remaining 48 miles up to Turtle Bay. The weather continues to look very favorable for continuing north, so we'll most likely depart Turtle Bay on Friday morning heading for Cedros and then on to San Carlos on Saturday.

Our current position is: 27 degrees 08'N; 114 degrees 17.13'W

Rich, Deb, Kyle & Ryan

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