Headed for Huatalco

We had a good ride for the afternoon, but by sundown the wind had tapered down to barely a puff. We brought down everything but the staysails and cleaned the decks before it got totally dark.

By then we picked up a stray passenger. A bird (not quite sure what he is at the moment) had landed on the dinghy and stayed there the whole time we were taking down the sails. He looks sorta frazzled so we let him hang out. It's after midnight now and I just walked the decks and he is still there, head curled around and sleeping. We might just have to put him to work if he is still there tomorrow.

This evening we were also treated to an interesting light show. There were pockets of light firing off at different places in the water all around the boat. Some near the surface were quite bright, then others deep. They weren't only right next to the boat, but some quite far out too. The little balls of bio-light were about the size of a golf ball to a baseball and some lasted more than 2 seconds. Quite the strange things. Paula said she saw the same things on her trip aboard Beach Acess but nobody believed her.

We should be arriving into Huatalco tomorrow around sunrise. A new day and a new port. We will probably spend a few days there and we will start watching for a weather window for the jump across the Gulf de Tehuantepec. We hear it can get quite nasty out there.