It's Tracy's Birthday!!!
10 May 2018 | Bahia San Francisquito
Bill
Today, May 11th is Tracy's Birthday!!! She's making plans for her German Chocolate Cake to have with our dinner, searching through the boat looking for it's ingredients. We've stayed in the cockpit for most of the morning playing cards and watching about a dozen shrimp boats pass the opening to the bay all heading north with no nets deployed and a lone local fishing guide taking out people from the "resort" that's on the other side of the pinninsula. They come and go early morning, mid morning and in the evening. Not sure how much is left in the Sea of Cortez but apparently enough for the locals. There is another group of flightless small ducks in this bay as well as in many of the bays we have visited. They float around in a pack and then all dive under the water looking for food. We've never seen them fly. As Tracy is looking for stuff for the cake, she's come upon jars of well expired Miracle Whip( looks yucky), Pickle Relish(expired in 2011), a really old jar of Kirtland sliced peaches(a crime they went over the hill), as well as an old bottle of Kirtland Margarita mix(another crime). She found other things, like five bottles of wine and some brown sugar, ad several bags of chocolate chips for putting in cookies plus other things we now have to chew through. Our larder just keeps putting forth more and more food. We've raised Pack Ratness to a new level!! The day dawned bright and sunny for a change though as we look farther east, we see what looks to be more banks of fog over near the islands again towering hundreds of feet high. Temps for today are in the low 80 and winds into the mid 20 knot range so we are sitting stiff for a day or so and letting these big winds pass us by. We will launch Puff this afternoon and tour around the bay looking for more shells. It helps having a bigger outboard so we can zip around and see places and get back and forth to Zephyr. As for yesterdays foggy trip, we sat in the cockpit under blankets and wearing hats and sweaters trying to stay warm and dry. Especially dry as the fog was putting out a nice layer of water where ever it touched and it touched everywhere. Towels were the item of the afternoon if you wanted to stay dry. My eye brows were even dripping water.