Dawn and sunrise on Monday December 23
The seas were wonderful today. The wind died, and there was almost no wind chop. The swells were relatively small and at long intervals.
However, it was overcast and very hot and humid. Eric turned on the generator during the hottest part of the day so we could run the air conditioning.
Continue readingcontinued from yesterday... walk over to Colimilla for lunch. This time, once we exited the gated community, we made our first left hand turn and walked back down the hill.
Our destination was a waterfront restaurant named Colimilla that claimed to have the best seafood. Street signs.
Sign on the water taxi stand:
Continue readingOur last sunrise in La Cruz de Huanacaxtle. on Tuesday, December 17
Eric checked out with the port captain and the marina office. We did all of the last-minute things to get Kosmos ready for sea, and we untied at noon for our 22-hour passage.
We are happy to report that the seas were mostly calm. In Bahia de Banderas we had some small head seas. When we went around Cabo Corrientes, we were braced for bad conditions since that patch of water was notorious for being confused and turbulent, but it was actually pretty good conditions. Beyond Cabo Corrientes, the swell was from the rear at long intervals and there was little wind chop.
Continue readingTuesday, December 10 – Dawn on Monday was ominous, with a red glow behind deep gray clouds.
We’d changed course, so now the swell was coming from the behind us and the wind chop from our port side. The swell was large and created a lot of motion, but the intervals were far enough apart that it wasn’t terrible. The wind chop, on the other hand, was big: 3 – 5 feet of breaking whitecaps on our beam. Every once in a while, a wave would hit the pilot house windows. The combination of waves from two directions made it uncomfortable, though not terrible. We definitely needed to hold on tight when we walked around the boat. Sea conditions more or less stayed the same all day.
Continue readingThis week was really eventful. We started the trip on Sunday December 1, and got to Ensenada on that same day. We were trapped on the boat until Monday because we hadn’t checked in to the country.
Monday might’ve been my favorite day of the week! We checked in, which took a while. After that, we went to El Rey Sol. It’s a really fancy French restaurant with really good Caesar Salads. I ordered the French Onion Soup and a Fondue Pot, both of which were really good. Mom and dad got beef tenderloin which I got a few bites of, and we all got Caesar Salads. Dad and I also split a fruit tart.
