Galapagos Arrival

Galapagos - We have arrived! -

We made it in relatively uneventfully.  The last couple of days we ran with light winds on our spinnaker and sailed most of the way.  It was quite nice with pleasant waters.

We celebrated the equator crossing with cupcakes.  We were really moving at the time, we crossed almost an hour before we'd predicted getting there, so there was a little scramble at the last minute.

Our fresh foods lasted well.  We still have some left - - 2 watermelons, 4 apples, carrots, potatoes and onions.  Made another successful yogurt yesterday.

We've been donating lures to the fish one after the other.  Just when you get down on your ability to catch something and think that you must be doing something wrong, you catch a fish.  Only an hour before we'd donated our most recent lure to the fish world, so I wasn't sure we were going to be able to reel this thing in.  We were under spinnaker, so we turned to try to slow us down while Courage reeled.  The fish was reeling out, not in!!  We were only hoping to slow down his ability to go out with our gear!  We've lost some that way, with the fish just reeling everything we had out while we tried to slow down and slow him down.  After a lot of reeling out, he steadied and had a lot of tension, so Courage just held on.  Then we drifted and the spinnaker dropped.  I took the reel and Courage and Cassidy dropped the spinnaker.  I got some slack, so I reeled in some.  I'd hardly made a dent.  Courage continued reeling and waiting.  Finally he'd tired out some and was resting.  Integrity suggested he focus and get the fish in - - Great advice from a guy who wasn't doing any of the work.

Shannon

Galapagos!  And we are here!

Who knew? The Galapagos are desert islands! You are probably not going to believe this but in the 75-degree water we met our first pod of Penguins. And of course a whole swarm of Blue Footed Boobies is dive-bombing a poor school of baitfish.  Looks like we are in for adventure!

We are anchored in 12 feet of water with a sand bottom, and many lava reefs.

There are about 10 other boats here, about half of which we have met one way or another.  There is a confirmed rumor that there is Internet at the beach, so we will be sending some pictures in the next couple of days!!!  I gotta go explore!!!

Courage