Headline: STILL IN CABO SAN LUCAS
WHAT: Hanging out sailing the tall ship Sunderland
WHY: because I am indeed a bit of a slow learner and just keep going back to sailing ships, despite the lack of pay… still the sailing is a blast…
HOW: not particularly well, given my current state of health… my ankle is not happy, tendonitis(?)… and I slipped with a grinder today and clipped a knuckle, ugh!
WHO: me, the Captain and crew… smiling for the cruise ship folks and taking their money just like the rest of the town….
WHEN: almost daily sailing… been here since mid-Dec and will stay til about May… come visit if you want…
WHERE: check out Google Earth, Cabo is right the bottom of Baja, you can even see the boat at the dock east side just inside the harbor entrance
Community News: If I could find a community I would tell you about it!… weird town… I’m sure back in the burbs where they keep the worker bees that tend the tourists there are probably real people… you know it’s a fun town when people look SO surprised, even excited, when you speak Spanish to them … really its just all about getting the tourists to part with their dollars.
Environmental news: Sad to say there will soon be no whale watching here in town… the little boats (pangas) harass and chase the whales so much that the whale numbers are decreasing more and more… apparently there are thousands of whales just up the coast!… So I have been talking to one of the crew’s girlfriend, Claudia, a Marine Biologist to see if there is some way to re-train HOW they do whale watching here… the whales are tail slapping at the little boats and still they don’t leave them alone…
Apparently last week a grey whale landed on a 27foot power boat off the coast of Santa Barbara, CA!… then smacked them and then stared at them with one eye… that would have freaked me out!… we sent the video of the whale landing on the kayak (I think it happened in BC) to a local tour company here that now seems to have gotten the message!… no big sharks here ... (see photo!) but did see a hammerhead just swimming along beside us one day...
Weather: Sun, sun, sun… oh it did rain last month one day… Sports: Can’t do a bleeding thing.. my ankle is too messed up… there is actually a yoga class here that I had just started going to and I haven’t been in weeks, can’t even walk that far to get to where the class is 10 minutes away… sigh…
Music: Listening/watching a great band. Out of New Zealand, Te Vaka. Introduced to them by my boss here. Fun world beat stuff.
Book reviews: Reading Morgans Run by Colleen McCullough who wrote Thorn Birds… its about the convicts sent to Australia from England, pretty interesting stuff…
Movie Reviews: Saw the Stepford Wives remake… quite different from the book, and they all lived happily ever after, not nearly so sinister… still, I did laugh… but what a horrible thought that husbands would do that to their wives…
Quote of the Week: It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Coming Events: Next long weekend for us is in April. Was supposed to leave town this weekend but didn’t make it. Would love to get up north to see the cave paintings near Santa Rosalita.
This is Laurel Seaborn “reporting” from Cabo San Lucas
