Everyone in the anchorage is chatty on the radio this morning, following conversations up and down the channels and piping in with info. We finally were finally able to check our wind speed with someone else's and found out it was definitely off by about 5 knots or more. Everyone said doesn't it have an adjustment for calibration and when I said it's a 30 year old instrument everyone just laughed and said yep, probably easier to do the calculation than to mess with it!

A windsurfer started up off one of the boats in anchorage. What a sight! He had quite a good ride with the winds today and his girlfriend rowed ashore to help bring the equipment back.

Had our first encounter with food bugs! Gross! We were boiling some pasta for dinner and upon closer inspection, what I thought was spices from the sauce spoon was a lot of boiled up bugs! Ok overboard with that and start dinner again. Have to check our packaged food more carefully before we buy it.

12/16/09

The rays came by closer today to our boat. When they are swimming together, they look like a pod of shark. At least I can get pictures (well movies) of them, not like dolphin which I still don't have. Kind of a shock not to see dolphins in this bay with as much fish as we are seeing here.

We watched some kite surfers along the bay today and hikers going up the top of the rocks. Spent the day cleaning the boat some more today as the net confirms the winds should let up to 10-15 knots. As it looked like there was going to be a mass exodus tonight/tomorrow, I hailed everyone to say bye and it's been fun. Most of them piped back in with their byes as well. A very nice group of people.

I finally put up another fly trap (I'd put them in such a good place to get them easy that I had not been able to find them since Ensenada - bad trapper!) and it's like waiting for a pot of water to boil! Nothing so far!