San Diego

By Aaron

We made a 24-hour passage from Oxnard to San Diego and it was a beautiful day and night.

Seems amazing to me to be down to a single fleece layer offshore.

We’ve had dolphins visit us pretty much every time we’re offshore in the last few legs.  But last time was amazing; there must have been hundreds of them!  They were jumping in the air all around the boat as far as we could see.  Hearing them talking to each other was awesome, and if you listen carefully on the video the camera was able to pick up their squeaking just barely.

Bow wake freeloaders

I tried to be productive during the passage down by polishing some stainless. 

Both the winch drums needed some work. But it’s hard and I got bored of it, so only did the port side.

We had a nice sunset over Santa Catalina as we passed it to starboard

We got hailed underway by SV Estrellita who happened to be on their way to San Diego as well.

We arrived in Mariners Basin and dropped the hook.  Then we took  a nap.

The last time we saw Estrellita was in Tofino, and I stated then that the next time we’d see them it’d be about 35 degrees warmer.  Turns out we were right!

These yahoos are enjoying the warmer weather as much as we are!

We split a cab ride and went to Costco for provisions.  Also Nicole had an appointment there to get a typhoid vaccination. 

If you’re in the South Pacific and need some canned chicken these are the people to talk to

We had a fun evening and polished off a ginormous Costco bottle of sake. 

Today we walked around Mission Beach and got a couple 3mm wetsuits for swimming in the Sea of Cortez.  Not sure what we’ll be doing tomorrow, but it’s looking pretty nice.

There’s probably going to be a little more of this action going on!

On Friday we’ll head over to San Diego Harbor and do some socializing.  We’ll probably head down to Ensenada on Monday.