Time Passes

Bodega Bay, California, USA


As has been pointed out to me by some avid readers, it has been some time since I posted an entry here.

The thing is that nothing much is going on, just biding our time here in Bodega Bay, waiting for a good weather window to continue our leisurely journey south.

After our experience around Cape Mendocino, we promised ourselves we would wait for some smoother seas before leaving this time.  Of course, since we arrived, the seas have been consistently high.  We know it is not just us, as the local fishermen are not too enthused about it either - so we continue to wait.  Looks like there may be a break after this coming weekend.  We are all fueled up and ready for whenever.

This is not such a bad place to spend time.  We have a couple of small grocery stores and restaurants within walking distance, and there is a daily bus that goes in to Santa Rosa (the largest city in California, north of San Francisco).  We did take one trip into town just to check it out, but for the most part, we are just enjoying observing all the action on the crab boats gearing up for their season, which starts for the commercial boats this Sunday.  The sport fishing opened up last weekend and there was quite a parade of small boats roaring up and down the narrow channel to throw down or pick up their crab traps or whatever they were doing - kept the coast guard busy watching the traffic and inspecting boats at the launch.

The big boats are loading up their traps (in some cases overloading if you want my opinion).  Huge piles of traps have been accumulating along the road and the winches by the fuel dock have been busy stacking them onto the boats.
 

We took a walk (about 2 miles) to the Bodega Marine Laboratory on visiting day last Friday.  They do a little tour, but it is not very spectacular - it is mostly lecture halls and experimental tanks for micro-biology experiments,  It is operated by the U of C, Davis. and seems to be run mostly by students and volunteers.

So, all is well here in Central (Northern?) California.

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