We are at sea again!
We left Emery Cove Marina after breakfast Wednesday morning (7/10) under
sunny skies and no wind. The Bay was
unusually calm and we slowly wound our way around Angel Island and Tiburon to
drop the anchor in Sausalito in the early afternoon. Both of us were very keen to be heading south
again, but we were also sorry to say goodbye to Carl and Cristina who have been
so good to us during our stay. We will
miss them.
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We were starting to get a bit too familiar with Emeryville and
by the time we left we had worked out the public transportation systems, where
the best places to buy groceries were, the best hiking and biking trails,
finding the chandleries and making social connections. Danger! Not good for cruising sailors! Time to move on!
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| At Port Costa |
Before we left, we did manage to
find our way to the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival where we joined thousands
of others to hear the music and be part of the scene.
People of all ages attended, though we
thought there were fewer than the last time we were there.
We were enveloped for most of the day in
clouds of marijuana as people mellowed out to the tunes of Joe Jackson, Steve
Earle, Ry Cooder, Indigo Girls and Lera Lynn to name just a very few.
After a benign night at Sausalito we followed the ebb tide
back under the Golden Gate Bridge and down the coast to Half Moon Bay.
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| Goodbye San Francisco |
The sun shone, it was warm, and by early
afternoon the breeze picked up from the north west and we sailed wing on wing
down past the Mavericks breakers before heading into this calm, protected
harbour. This was quite a different
passage from the one we did five years ago when we beat into a south wind and uncomfortable
steep seas.
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| Sunset at Half Moon Bay |
We expect to stay here for a few days to hike in the hills and kayak around the harbour before continuing on to Santa Cruz
and Monterey.
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| Hiking near Port Costa, overlooking the Sacremento River. We'll miss you Carl and Cristina! Thank you for everything. |
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