Sunrise on Monday, September 12

We spent most of the day doing chores. Christi was cleaning the waterline when she got an especially painful jellyfish sting on her ankle. It hurt so much that she had to get out of the water. Somehow, a jellyfish managed to get inside her flipper and stung her multiple times around the ankle! Fortunately, she had managed to do most of the boat before the sting. As the day went on, her ankle swelled up.

During the morning, two more cruising boats came into the anchorage. Both were couples that we had first met in Santa Rosalia, and both had weathered Hurricane Kay with us in Don Juan. We made arrangements to do the float together. This time, we planned to be there at the peak of high tide so we could get more rides in.

Keith opted not to go. Eric and Christi agree the ride is definitely more fun with a group!

Getting started at peak high tide

Ruby and Paul

Chris and Michelle

We did 5 rides in all. Another boat that we were friends with came into the bay, anchored, and joined us while we were on our third ride. Pictured below are Marvin, Laurie and Odin, not pictured are Pearl and Clara.

Each ride got faster and faster as the current picked up, and the last ride was a bit bumpy because the water level was getting low.

The timing was great that we did the last ride just as the sun was setting. Note how much lower the tide was.

Check out the birds. 

A couple of sunset photos