We left Cabo Cruz at 4:00am as we had a lot of ground to cover and we needed to get there in the afternoon when the light was good and we could "read the water". We put up full sails thinking the wind was going to be in the 15 - 20kt range. And it was for the first 15 minutes and then it started blowing 20 and then 25 - 30. Because it was dark there was no way I was going to try and reef, so we let out the main to spill some of the wind and hung on for a wild ride. We averaged 8.7kts for the first 6 hours of the passage and often seen speeds in the double digits. The last couple of hours it died down some and we were in the lee of some islands so the waves calmed down as well.

We had a couple of "firsts" for us. On the passage we had a couple of flying fish jump into the boat - one almost hit Karen. The first few flopped their way back into the water, but another jumped in but we could not find it. We knew it was there as it smelled. In the daylight Karen found it between a couple of cushions. The other first was this morning we woke up to find that our anchor had dragged and we were hard on the ground - at least the starboard hull was. Kokopelli came over with their dingy and using the motors we were able to get off easily. WHEW!

There are no towns around here and the only people we have seen are some fisherman. 4 of them came over yesterday and they wanted to know if we wanted some Lobster. We said sure, so they went about 1/4 mile south of us jumped in the water and returned about 1/2 hour later with 4 of them for us. We gave them a liter of rum which cost about $4, so a pretty trade.

We are going to try and find a better anchorage and then possibly stay there a few days.

A belated happy birthday to Lori and Tom. Hope you had a good one.