A Night of Glassy Seas
07 February 2008 | Sea of Cortez
Clear and calm, later winds to 25 knots
A night of glassy seas, the water so calm I could see phosphorescent phishies swimming by and one big star laid a long golden path from the horizon to our boat. Still calm this morning when I took this shot (I'm a sucker for water reflection photos) but the glassiness has been replaced by tiny wavelets. We're still motoring, obviously.
The Capt put in some time improving our SSB radio before we left, and now we can hear the Oracle, Don from Oxnard on the Summer Passage Net, relating his wisdom on the weather for the day. If we stay close to shore, we'll have no wind until late this afternoon, he reports. Well, we're not in a hurry at this point anyway, since our nav system says we'll arrive there in 20 hours, well after daylight, at our current speed. It wouldn't do to get there in the dark, we decided after looking at a closeup chart of their narrow channel into the anchorage.
I'm looking forward to staying in the harbor this time, because it's close to Old Town, which I prefer to the touristy Gold Zone near the marinas.