Santa Barbara,Cojo anchorage, San Luis Obispo, and Morrow Bay

It started out ok. When we left Santa Barbara it was still kind of dark. And very foggy. And this is when I began to experience my first horrific bout of seasickness. 

maybe taking these pictures started the nausea

last photo for  a while as I'll be either hurling over the edge of the boat or trying to sleep it off below.

these guys made me feel well enough to start snapping photos again.

a place we hope never to see our boat

dark spots on the beach are the shadows of a flock of pelicans

 We anchored at Cojo around 2pm. It was a rocky night and James did not sleep well worrying about the anchor (wise as this was our first time using it). I on the other hand was exhausted from doing nothing but throwing up all day.

Early risers we are, so we pulled anchor at around 6:30 am heading towards San Luis Obispo. 

I was sick the first part, fog, waves and I have yet to get along. But I pulled through it this time and was able to give James a bit of a break. 

View from anchorage. 

Rowing ashore. We were told it was only "bout half mile" to town..
it was closer to two. The town was lovely, the groceries were expensive. 

rowing back to the boat I noticed a little head popping in and out of the water.

then there were two and I wondered if those seals were going to try and tip
our little dingy. I've heard of them doing just that.

our sturdy little boat at anchorage.

cormorants woke us up. 

hundreds of cormorants

this giant dock it looks like we might hit is actually the fueling dock.

and these were the friendly "attendants"

of course they were no help. they just "laughed" at us and our funny means of navigating the seas.

Heading away from San Luis Obispo I took the first watch. 

not so bad at first

there's that fog again. It kicked my a** once more and James took over.

magical.

We got hot showers and were able to get wi-fi and watch a movie. Don't remember what we watched but it the most exceptional part was..everything was free!

Channel Island Harbor and Santa Barbara

We left the marina a little after 6am. The sun hadn't come up and it was a bit foggy at first.

beautiful new sail isn't she?

 

But it soon started to lighten up and the sun shone on us for the rest of our journey to Channel Island Harbor where we arrived at 6:30pm. 

looks surreal doesn't it? 

we spent a nice relaxed evening at CIH, then set off the next morning for Santa Barbara. We motored most of the way, but had nice winds for the last two hours. Perfect sailing weather.

Dominga at the helm, James at the camera.

Entering Santa Barbara

We took a nice stroll on the beach.

 

and this was the view from our boat.

Rewind: Cabrillo Marina Port of Los Angeles

Wow. So it's been quite some time since we've added any new photo's or news! I think I'll back up a bit, with the help of the log book and the dates on photo's I took 2 years ago!!! Yes, procrastination does run in my family (thank you Mom) So here goes.


We stayed at Cabrillo Marina in San Pedro from September 11th, 2011 until September 17th when we started the first leg of our sometimes shaky voyage home. 



We did a bit of walking and exploring of the marina while waiting for all the gear to show up. 

An episode of Shameless was filming on a yacht just a few slips down from us. 

Try as we might we did not recognize anyone. But then we haven't seen the show either.

The eagerly and not very patiently awaited new sail went up on September 16th (thank you phone for dating photos for me)

 
 Pictures make things appear so easy, but putting this sail on was a pain in the a** and James had some serious tinkering to do with the old sail slides in order to get them to work on our sail, since the brand new sail slides on our brand new sail didn't fit our very old track.

And this is the last we saw of Cabrillo Marina and San Pedro. 

6:29am September 17th 2011.

this is where it started getting interesting.......