Monday, May 21, 2007
Sea Lions on our dock
These are sea lions on our dock by a catamaran named Blue Persuasion.
Photo by Nadia.
The Jelly Fish
One man says that they are stinging jelly fish, dad has not gotten stung yet,
Photo by Nadia
Hiking
Hi Everyone,
Thanks to Jayden and Ingrid for sending us a comment and to Mika and his family for posting comments. No worries, your dreams of waterfalls etc probably foreshadow some of the great things we are going to see. Peter is about to post a bunch of photos. These show sunny, calm conditions. Don't be fooled, this represents less than 5% of the time of the trip. Peter is paid the big bucks to put a rosy shine on all things he takes pictures of. That being said, when I saw all the photos, I realized that we have actually done quite a few things while at the various locations we have pulled into. Here are some of the highlights according to Nadia:
1) We have seen hundreds of pelicans, hundreds of sea lions (check out Nadia's photos of them), puffins, egrets, sandpipers, terns, and lots of jellyfish (see Nadia's photo of a purple bucketfull), dolphins and porpoises. Nadia had a giant mussel close on her net such that we had to wait 15 minutes or so until he let go.
2) Learning how to do a headstand on the grass and backrolls if I am going down a hill.
3) Gymnastics on the sail halyard and jibstay.
4) There is lots of kite flying here and kite waterskiing and windsurfing. I didn't know windsurfers could move that fast. There is a kite and candy store in the village of Bodega Bay. They have really beautiful kites there. Dad bought me two books of tattoos.
5) Fishing off the dock, catching jellyfish, and a couple of small fish.
6) I found 4 empty snail shells. They are very big. They like to live on what Mom thinks are Cana Lilies. I call them canvas lilies.
7) Nadia says it is taking so long to get to San Francisco and we are not there yet.
8) I made a ladybug, dragonfly and oyster out of Fimo clay. Also, I have done a lot of painting. We make lots of paper airplanes. After finishing a whole book of mazes, called MazeCraze, we tear out the pages, fold them into paper airplanes which we throw off the back of boat. Nadia has become an expert paper airplane folder.
Hopefully the next post will be from San Fran.
Brenda and Nadia.
Thanks to Jayden and Ingrid for sending us a comment and to Mika and his family for posting comments. No worries, your dreams of waterfalls etc probably foreshadow some of the great things we are going to see. Peter is about to post a bunch of photos. These show sunny, calm conditions. Don't be fooled, this represents less than 5% of the time of the trip. Peter is paid the big bucks to put a rosy shine on all things he takes pictures of. That being said, when I saw all the photos, I realized that we have actually done quite a few things while at the various locations we have pulled into. Here are some of the highlights according to Nadia:
1) We have seen hundreds of pelicans, hundreds of sea lions (check out Nadia's photos of them), puffins, egrets, sandpipers, terns, and lots of jellyfish (see Nadia's photo of a purple bucketfull), dolphins and porpoises. Nadia had a giant mussel close on her net such that we had to wait 15 minutes or so until he let go.
2) Learning how to do a headstand on the grass and backrolls if I am going down a hill.
3) Gymnastics on the sail halyard and jibstay.
4) There is lots of kite flying here and kite waterskiing and windsurfing. I didn't know windsurfers could move that fast. There is a kite and candy store in the village of Bodega Bay. They have really beautiful kites there. Dad bought me two books of tattoos.
5) Fishing off the dock, catching jellyfish, and a couple of small fish.
6) I found 4 empty snail shells. They are very big. They like to live on what Mom thinks are Cana Lilies. I call them canvas lilies.
7) Nadia says it is taking so long to get to San Francisco and we are not there yet.
8) I made a ladybug, dragonfly and oyster out of Fimo clay. Also, I have done a lot of painting. We make lots of paper airplanes. After finishing a whole book of mazes, called MazeCraze, we tear out the pages, fold them into paper airplanes which we throw off the back of boat. Nadia has become an expert paper airplane folder.
Hopefully the next post will be from San Fran.
Brenda and Nadia.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Bodega Bay
We are in Bodega Bay California just 60 sailing miles from the Golden Gate Bridge. What a nice feeling. We left Eureka after a slight delay waiting for the tide to lift us off the bottom. The conditions were very calm and we ended up motoring for most of the way. After all we experienced, Cape Mendocino was placid and calm. Exactly what it wasn't supposed to be. No complaints though. I was on the first shift for the night watch and had a very pleasant evening. I woke Dale at 12:30 who too had a good
shift. Just prior to turning it over to Brenda at 4:00 am the fog rolled in. She had a more entertaining time. The fog besides making it obviously more difficult to see other boats also deposits a fine mist on everything. Dale took over again at 7:00 am for Brenda, poor thing, who was very cold.
The wind here is very strong right now, we entered the skinny little channel that takes us to the marina in 30 kt head winds. First chance though we will make the final run to San Francisco. There are many interesting birds both in the bays we have been in and on route out at sea.
shift. Just prior to turning it over to Brenda at 4:00 am the fog rolled in. She had a more entertaining time. The fog besides making it obviously more difficult to see other boats also deposits a fine mist on everything. Dale took over again at 7:00 am for Brenda, poor thing, who was very cold.
The wind here is very strong right now, we entered the skinny little channel that takes us to the marina in 30 kt head winds. First chance though we will make the final run to San Francisco. There are many interesting birds both in the bays we have been in and on route out at sea.
Peter
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