Our first overnight passage of this trip is in the books. We left Half Moon Bay Saturday mid-morning, and made the ~30 hour trek down to Morro Bay (and in response to Sanjay's question: Yes! It gets very very cold at night). During my night watches I kept thinking what I would say if someone suggested I sit on a grey Northern California beach all night staring at the water to make sure nothing appeared, and then I would ask myself why I was gladly doing the equivalent 12 miles out at sea. Further motivation to keep moving South, eventually it has to warm up right?

Yesterday afternoon we arrived at Morro Bay, and are currently tied up at the Morro Bay Yacht Club, which is clearly very experienced at dealing with cruisers: 'Showers are there, here's a map to the supermarket, wireless code there, laundry is over there, garbage is there, you can use the water on the docks, etc."

Today we are off to a slow start, but have lots planned, not the least of which is to do our 50 hour service on the engine (did I mention there was no wind on our trip down? We currently have to hand steer whenever we are running the engine, which quickly gets brutal, but on the flipside is a good motivator not to burn fuel).

The picture is of Pisces with the 'famous' Morro Bay rock in the background. We will be here for a day or so taking care of chores, and watching the weather for a good rounding of Pt. Conception.