We are currently motoring on a plate glass mirror as we approach the Canal De San Lorenzo and our ultimate destination for this leg Puerto Ballandra. We pulled anchor early at 0330hrs and have enjoyed a nice, yet rather noisy motor up the Sea of Cortez. About 15 miles behind us is the rest of our 5 boat flotilla all headed to the same anchorage. As the smallest and slowest boat, it's nice to leave ahead of the pack so that we don't end up watching them slowly pull away from us and vanish over the horizon. This is where a larger boat would come in handy for that increased waterline not to mention to 500-700lbs of home schooling materials we have on board!

The sunrise today was typical or what we have been seeing since we entered the Sea of Cortez, just fabulous and I made sure to take some photos that I'll upload to this blog post as soon as I get real internet. I had the entire view to myself with the kids and Lori sleeping, although Amy was sleeping in the cockpit. She has been sleeping in the cockpit for the last week or so and really enjoys it. I'm not sure if it's because it's cooler outside, or if she likes it because she can't hear her dad or Jason snore! But either way, she's happy and sleeping well, which makes the rest of the crew happy.

The kids are currently on watch with Lori and I down bellow. I stick my head out of the companionway hatch every few minutes to check on them and so far we haven't ran into anything! They are working good together with one watching forward and aft and the other taking port and starboard, that way there's a bit of overlap. The autopilot is holding our course towards the canal de San Lorenzo very well as it has been ever since we executed the mutineer, which made a great example for the rest of the crew!

We have some prepaid days at Marina Palmira from last year's stay in La Paz and are looking forward to using their laundry and trash service. If someone looked at us from afar, they could easily mistake us for either a garbage scow or laundry barge, because the dingy is filled with a few weeks of trash and the port gunnels is overflowing with dirty laundry! I'm sure if Jason looked harder he could find some clean shorts, but at the moment, he is dressed in a t-shirt, life jacket and red undies because he says he can't find any pants, at least not covered in sand!

Jason just called me up on deck for a visual confirmation of a vessel he spotted and to claim his $0.25 cents that they kids get for each vessel spotted. I tried to change to $0.25 pesos but the kids understand the concept already that $1 peso is only worth about $0.08 cents US at the current exchange rate of 13:1.

The good thing about motoring all morning is that our battery bank that started the day down about 240AMP hours is now back to full charge and has been in the float mode for about an hour.

Time for the Captain to go back on watch as we approach and pass through the canal de San Lorenzo, and with the cabin temp at 87 deg, not a minute too late!