I am sorry it has been so long for an update, I have taken some time off of sailing and trying to get a few things fixed and spend some time with my kids. I have Kim and all four kids onboard for this trip. We all wanted to sail down to South Padre Island and check it out. It is the first time the kids have been sailing and let me tell you it has been a shock for most of them. We all drove down from Rio Rancho NM on Friday oh boy it took over 13 hours and when we got here it was 105 degrees with 86 percent humidity. We spent the first two days working on the boat to take our voyage; we left the safety of the marina and headed to the gulf, the winds were out of the south not good but we had to head out if we want to make the trip in the nine days we have. We sailed about an hour and some of the kids started to get a bit sea sick we gave them some meds and pushed on. We sailed the rest of the day and the kids were not getting much better so we stopped in the bay next to a small island and dropped anchor and cooked dinner and spent the night. In the morning there was dolphins swimming around the boat and there was no wind at all. I pulled up the anchor and headed to the gulf but was asked if we could just stay inside of the bay and not go out to the gulf so we did. We found a marina called Island mooring they had a pool and showers and all that the kids liked. The beach was not too far away just two short blocks, we spent all day Tuesday playing on the beach and then walked back to the boat.
On Wednesday we took the trolley in to town and lunch and did some shopping and then came back to do some swimming in the pool. We are about to cook dinner and then head out in the morning to do some fishing offshore and some diving.