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January 7th-(Happy Birthday to my sister Sue!) What a nice day we had today. Since we have no schedule to meet, we were able to wait a few days for a nice South wind that allowed us to go North almost 40 miles today, up to San Evaristo without using the engine. Finally, we were able to just “follow the wind”. We left Partida (an island about 15 miles off of La Paz where we spent the night anchored in a lovely little cove) around 0930 and sailed on a nice broad reach with just the 130% jib. Ten knots of wind gave us around 4-5 knots boatspeed for most of a gloriously sunny and warm day. Large fish jumped all over the sea during the mid-morning-we’re not sure, but think they might have been Marlin or Sailfish. You’d see a huge flash of white water, then silver and blue shinning skin and another splash. One jumped right in front of us, but since I wasn’t looking in that direction when it leapt, all I saw was the subsequent splash of something very large. Wilson the wind vane steered the whole day, so we were able to lounge and just enjoy the trip (well, I did-Ann did some boat cleaning, did the laundry and took a sun shower). We arrived in San Evaristo at 1730, and anchored just in time to watch the sunset and an almost full moon come up over Isla San Jose about 5 miles to the East. We’ll probably spend a few days here to wait out some rambunctious “Northers” that are forecast for tomorrow and Monday (25 or so knots out of the North), then the more normal 10-15 knot North winds will fill back in and we’ll use them to start working our way South toward an eventual “jump” to Mazatlan-likely mid to late next week. By the way, for those of you who read Lattitude 38, your challenge is to find pictures of Ann and I in the January edition. We sent something in and while they didn’t pick up the blurb we sent, they did post our pictures eating at The Shack, in La Paz. Tomorrow we hope to be able to try out our new inflatable kayaks for the first time! Cross fingers and yes, I’ll take video.