We sailed fast in the morning , but then it was like somebody turn off the windswitch ....zero
so we sailed and motored to Cabo San Lucas...its party time here .Big tourist boats with boom boom boxes. but many whales and turtles and dolphins...so it was worth the stop here .Hope to sleep well after so many
sail changes. As sailors know : light wind sailing is often much harder than a fresh breeze...good night everybody... ah ...yes : NOTHING BROKE

A pleasant day sail brought us 45 miles closer to Nuku Hiva . I saw a whale and again many jumping rays. Daniela wanted to go to the beach for a last walk but the swell at the beach gives big waves and we might
get the dinghy flipped over if we risk it . Not a good thing on the last stop. Maybe the swell stops later or tomorrow morning. It doesn't mater what time we leave for the 3 to 4 week Pacific trip.
A weird thing happened today : NOTHING BROKE. And the heat exchanger rubber cap that we changed yesterday is not leaking and the engine is working fine so far...lucky. Or maybe no just luck : we carried spare
rubber caps , because we know they break often. Now we haven't got any more spares...HAVE YOU GOT SPARE PARTS FOR EVERYTHING?

A windy place but much calmer than the Ventana. It took us a few hours to sail against current and little wind to this protected bay. Instead of lazy Sunday afternoon , i can take apart the heat exchanger and fix a few
things on the engine. Funny , that most people on land think we just sit around sail under the tropical sun and drink pina coladas. Or , as a friend of mine told me ....sit in front of the computer all day.
Off course i stop most work when the city folks come for a visit. But when they are gone and we cleaned up all their hair from the filters ....we get back to work. That's life on a boat....yes. Its not always paradise

A slow day with little wind and a few motor hours to get us anchored at this beach.
What broke: Oil is leaking out of the port engine and the heat exchanger is leaking rusty water...the hydlrolic steering makes a weird noise when hand steering under engine. The oil reservoir level is rising...puzzled.
tomorrow is fixing engine etc....it never ends ...and that's just the beginning.
But we saw many sting rays jumping and dolphins , seals and and and its beautiful here in Mexico

a pleasant day tacking against the northerlies towards False Bay. Saw a whale shark as we left La Paz and a seal said hello as we entered in this calm bay .Calm , after months of enduring the La Paz Waltz, an
annoying tidal stream that shakes you up in your boat as if you sailing off shore.
Gives us time to clean the propellers and get the boat ready for when the weather is perfect for leaving. Right now , there would be no wind and south wind towards Cabo San Lucas...who wants that

we did all the paperwork during the solar eclipse. I expected it to be much darker . It was definitely colder and that little bid of sun didn't burn anymore. The government workers showed us the sun reflected thru the
grommet holes over us on a sun shade. Lots of little new moons on the floor. They also gave us a piece of paper with a hole in it so you make that shadow on the floor. Off course i had to look at it quickly with my
sunglasses and saw it . But it was way to bright to look longer than a split second. We biked back along the Malecon or the beach promenade where all the tourists sat and had those funny glasses. Everybody offered
to have a look thru. So we did and it was just like looking at the sun or moon with a sextant. Not a total eclipse that we would have had if we sailed south. But as usual we are a bid late. And now there is south wind
coming ,so we have to go to False Bay , a quiet anchorage to clean the propellers. Its calm there no tidal chop like here. In a few days it should go back to North wind and then we are off to Nuku Hiva.