Anemone

The enemy of my anemone is my friend??

Santa Barbara Beach

With our boaters friends, Steve and Kathy.

Butterflly Exhibit

Our trip to the Natural History Museum

Hello From Santa Barbara

It's happening, you now hear us complaining about the heat. Not the worst thing that's happened to us so far. Today we spent several hours playing in the surf. Nadia loved it. I suspect it won't be our last time. I've been catching up with the boat maintenance. Oil changes, dinghy repair, paint touch-up etc. It's a lot of work keeping these things floating.

Nadia's Notes: I saw five octopi, one sting ray, five starfish, three crabs (probably more), lots of mussels, limpets and nudibranch and their eggs, they had blue bodies and orange sticks, sticking out of their blue bodies (all in the wild). At a butterfly exhibit I saw, monarchs, zebra longwings, morning cloaks and lots more. I saw 4 great blue herons, one with a wound on it's wing that I named Heather Jean.

In Warm Santa Barbara

Dolphins riding by our boat on the way into Santa Barbara Channel

Blue skies and palm trees, a welcome sight

Nadia enjoying a day of fishing off the pier in Santa Barbara.

They were right, the difference in weather once around Point Conception is remarkable. The last 40 miles into Santa Barbara were so calm we didn't even raise the sails. We have stowed our down sleeping bags and dug out the shorts. Santa Barbara is as California is supposed to be. Warm and sunny. The marina here is huge by most standards I'm used to. The city is geared for vacationers with long sandy beaches and so much to do it's impossible to decide where to start. Brenda's mom and dad are planning a visit in a couple of weeks.

Pete

Out and About

Climbing a ladder to get onto the pier at Port San Luis.

Life Aboard