Here is a shot of the almost full moon still shining brightly well after sunrise on Tuesday, September 13.
Christi thinks that on Tuesday, our friend, Chris, had an angel watching over him and protecting him. Eric thinks that Chris got lucky with a chain of fortuitous coincidences.
Continue readingSunrise 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.
Continue readingI liked La Mona the second time. We went to another party, this time on a cruiser’s beach, and did D&D with Basik and Gen M.
When Eric woke up, on Sunday (September 11), a few of his toes were bruised and it was a bit hard for him to walk. Not a fun way to start the day. He is glad he did not fall farther on the stairs.
The almost full moon was visible — and magical looking — long after sunrise.
A few boats had left the Bay of LA on Saturday, but most had stayed for the party. Today, people began to part ways. One by one, people announced on the radio that they were leaving and where they were going. Even though we’d only known most of these people for ten days (some more, some less), after so much fun socializing and going through the hurricane together, we felt bonded with them. It was sad to see them go.
We weren’t going very far, just to the northern tip of Bahia de Los Angeles. Before we left, we had some of the boat kids over to play D&D for a couple of hours.
We pulled up anchor at 1315 and headed for La Gringa, about a 1.75 hour ride from La Mona. We knew we were in the right place when we saw a giant sign on a hill that said “Welcome to La Gringa.”
Continue readingOn Friday morning (September 9), we were surprised to wake up to no wind and no rain. The storm had cleared much earlier than expected. What a relief! It did start to drizzle not long after we woke up, but the drizzle didn’t last long.
The rivers had dried up. We couldn’t believe how clear the water in the bay was! Between all the mud that had come down and the churned up water, we’d expected the water to be too dirty to run the generator or watermaker. Another happy surprise!
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