(Notes from Ann) I’m writing this blog after watching the full moon plus one day, rise over Isla San Jose. Truly, we watched as the glow brightened behind the island top and then stood and enjoyed a glorious orange orb – much like a harvest moon – clear the island. It took less than two minutes. Amazing!

Moonrise from Evaristo

Some days are boat days and include a lot of work, others are not. Today was a book day! Both of us have been deep into our books and loving it! In California the rain keeps you inside. In Baja it is the wind. As of this evening the wind has died down now in San Evaristo but it was howling again today, encouraging us to stay aboard.

We did go ashore to collect a full zip lock bag of sea salt (which I used when I made the old tortillas into chips at lunch!). And we stopped at the local “bar” for a cerveza with our Canadian friends. Great thing about this beer (it is always an adventure) was that when Bob reached into the ice box to get us one he found a leg of goat on ice. Yep, the mama goat apparently sat on a baby and now there is leg of goat in the ice box. You gotta love Mexico! So a slow easy day. Tomorrow we hope to head to Isla San Francisco in search of a calmer bay to try out the new kayaks. There is a small island between our current location and Isla San Francisco (yes, we have commented on the irony of two islands named San Jose and San Francisco being so close to each other) that we hope to stop at for a quick look. Soon we will be aiming across the Sea to Mazatlan. Stay tuned!

PS -we’d like to thank our most ardent followers, especially Jerry and Cliff for their fun comments on our blog. We are pleased to know you are enjoying it as much as we are enjoying sharing with all of you.