Ensenada

June 6

What’s really cool about our wait in Ensenada is that I’m using up my yarn. Okay, I did buy a bit in San Diego, but that was to contrast with some white-ish alpaca from Hood River for the replacement of my 40 year old Cowichan hat, a standby during all the outdoor fun we’ve had in cold or bad weather! Finally I knit the replacement and even wrote up a rule and what I know about the history of these hats. The second hat I knit just to try out another way of making the cuff turn up reliably.

Kid size traditional, old beloved, alpaca yarn with whale chased by a canoe.
 Okay, the canoe does look like a dead cat on its back or an elephant.

(It’s been a productive trip for knitting projects with 3 hats, 3 scarves, a couple of shorty mittens, 2 sweaters and a pair of slippers now in the works.)

Big bull attempts to board the dock.

Meanwhile, while packing and securing everything on deck, Charlie has been entertained by local efforts to repel sea lions across from us. He even succeeded in scaring one off the dock just by yelling.

A towering tho' very neat example of de crap.

A scarelion who fell down on the job. Good thing he had
a helmet on to protect his bleach bottle head.

Charlie also photoed a number of cruising boats here with impressive crap on de back.

After a certain amount of unrigging and packing, the boat is ready for our YachtPath pickup tomorrow. We ate the perishables and used all the ice cubes in our drinks tonight. All we have to do is clean up the icebox, pickle the watermaker and pack our overnight bags tomorrow before the Pac Accrux, a giant bulk carrier ship, comes into the harbor to load Gratitude. Next stop Victoria!