It takes only a little excuse for cruisers to celebrate together, typically enjoying happy hour on one of their boats. And the captain and crew of S/V Ubiquity do it too!

You may have gotten the wrong impression from some of my earlier posts, the posts about "eschewing the big happy hour dinghy raft-ups" down south when we choose instead to cruise north into the wilderness of the Midriff Islands. Yes, we are leaving in the morning for the Midriff Islands. But no, we do not eschew happy hours with our fellow cruisers when we get the chance.

See the photo above. We are enjoying happy hour on our friend Chuck's boat with some of our other cruising friends in Marina San Carlos. Do we have an excuse to celebrate? Of course, there is always an excuse ready. Our excuse last evening was to celebrate the imminent departure of S/V Ubiquity.

So thank you friends, fellow cruisers, for your friendship and support in San Carlos. Thank you for your happy hour last evening. Thank you for the light-hearted revelry, and the sometimes more thoughtful discussions of American history. Thank you for your wishes of good luck. The whales and other wildlife, and the wilderness, we hope to see sailing to the Midriff Islands and Bahia de Los Angeles can not replace you. But neither can you replace the whales. So despite that we will miss you and your camaraderie, S/V Ubiquity sails north in the morning.

When we sail north, we celebrate the upcoming adventures, but we also celebrate our cruising friends in San Carlos. And that is a great excuse for happy hour when S/V Ubiquity reaches her first anchorage in the Midriff Islands.