Winter comes to BLA

Puerto Don Juan, BLA, BC, Mexico

Well maybe not real winter, but definitely a cooling trend for the Sea of Cortez.

After a few mostly overcast days, including the aforementioned Chubasco, we are now experiencing some cool clear fall-like days. The nighttime temperatures have been much more enjoyable - we had a low of around 24 degrees last night. The daytime highs are no more than 33 or 34 and the humidity is much lower, making everything more comfortable. Sue has even started using the oven again!

Otherwise, not much to report. We made a day trip over to the village yesterday to finish off some internet business (and grab a burger at Guillermo's). While there, I did attempt to update this blog, but with little success - so it is back to sailmail for the time being. What the trip to town did make very obvious was that the bottom of the boat is in bad need of cleaning. When we were motoring we seem to have lost a good 2 knots on our speed (ie: when we should be going 5.5 knots at 1400 RPM, we are now only getting 3.5).Today's task has been to tackle the jungle that has been growing on the bottom of Sine Timore. It is hard to believe just how much crap can accumulate in a short time in these warm waters. I got about half of it off and will continue the battle tomorrow.

Otherwise, we are just carrying on as usual, eating, reading, playing scrabble and going for our daily social swim in the afternoon. All in all, life in paradise is not so bad.

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