All the holiday traffic here has gone home, and we are at home. How cool is that?! I have tons of great pictures to attach to these posts, but alas our Virgin Mobile 3-G Dongle is having connection issues, and I’m only able to work online for about 10 minutes at a time before losing the signal... (UPDATE: WE ARE IN DANA POINT HARBOR AND I AM FINALLY ABLE TO ADD PICTURES!!!) The stars have to be aligned correctly, the tide must be high, and the boat must pitch ever so gently. It is forcing me to be very organized and less verbose which is probably a good thing.
We have been hiking in the island hills, kayaking on our new inflatable and playing ball with Dover on the beach closest to where we are moored in the harbor. Yes, that is correct, the boy went ashore now three times… the poop has left the pooch… onboard the boat and begrudgingly. He is learning the new ropes of living on the hook, and is certainly very much more appreciative of his trips ashore. Dover is now a Salty Dog!
We are doing little organizational things aboard and small projects (backing-up files on hard drive, re-stowing things for better access, etc) Craig caught a small bonita fish off the boat, but we let him go as he was not big enough for a good meal.
Tomorrow we will head into town and fill our water jerry jugs (we will not attempt hooking-up our reverse osmosis watermaker until we are in Mexico) drop off garbage and recycling, pumpout our holding tank, and generally prepare for departure. We are thinking of bypassing San Diego and heading directly for Ensenada, and our Mexican check-in to the country, due to our unplanned stop here in Catalina… we’ll see. The great thing about cruising is that you are on your own time frame and can make these decisions as you go.
We are very much enjoying everyone’s comments and holiday emails. Please keep them coming! If we don’t respond right away, don’t despair, we will respond eventually… (If you have, what I like to call "super zoom", you will find Craig and Dover hiking on the trail that I have photographed... Good stuff that is!)
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