SV Panta Rhei Retirement Trip

We've disconnected from the dock. It was difficult. We've really enjoyed the air conditioning and broadband internet. That's tough to leave behind. But the holding tanks were filling up and we were running out of potable water. So it was time to leave. We can come back. Our direction now is south where friends are rendezvousing for a 4th of July celebration in Playa el Burro. On the way back we'll try to stop at Mulege. The wind prevented that on the way north. To get cool now, we have to swim. But it turns out that the marina makes the waterline dirty, so there is something to clean when we are swimming. And Karen still wants me to work on the sink drain to try to extract some more fish parts. And there is always the prop and shaft to clean. The bottom paint we had put on in Mazatlan is working pretty well.

We are traveling in company with SV Safety Cat (Nick and Andrea and Pari), but we have a dinner invitation aboard SV Island Bound (Bill and Kat Russel) this evening. They caught 7 fish today (Dorado, I think) and are having a number of the boats in the anchorage over for dinner.

It's nice to be on the move again. The picture is a lobster that had died where we were snorkeling. I couldn't find a live one to take a picture of (or eat). I'll keep trying though.