Even though the last few days have been overcast and scattered showers, we've had a great couple of days on the boat.

After Oceanside, we popped in Newport for a night mooring off Balboa Island. I love Balboa island and Newport just for strolling around and dinghy cruising. There's a lot to see, do, and nice place to relax on the boat while seeing lots of stuff happening on shore.

We left Newport just in time to catch a small amount of sprinkles with some ominous dark coulds overhead. Actually, I think we just missed the downpour. It got rather windy (27 kts at 8am) so we though we'd be in for quite a ride over to Catalina. Lucky for us, the wind died down a bit and Catalina greeted us with sunny skies in the distance.