We arrived in Bahia de Ballena on the Nicoya peninsula, Costa Rica just before noon today. Did a 24 hour passage from Cocos, Costa Rica and escaped from the dreaded papagayo winds. Ugh. Howling wind in the rigging and salt spray everywhere gets old after a while. It looks lovely here but have yet to go ashore. Have had our anchor beers and a bite of lunch and now Rich is putting the sail covers on and I am doing this email. After a nap we'll put the dingy together and check out the surroundings. The water temp is 85F and the air temp 89F. And good news, the humidity is only 62%! Just went out on deck and helped Rich with the sail cover and the air smells like flowers. Yumm. So far I like Costa Rica even more than Nicaragua. While we were in Cocos (our first port in Costa Rica) I even found avocados and mangoes in the grocery. Life is looking up. Have heard from many other cruisers that there is an organic vegetable vender here in this anchorage on Saturday morning. I am so looking forward to Saturday. In the meantime there is resting, swimming, playing Sarafina and chilling out for a while. There are so many islands in this area that we'll stay for a while and do some exploring. Seems like we have been moving and evading crazy strong winds for way too long now.
Small world story. There is only one other cruising sailboat here in this anchorage and we know them from Alameda. We are anchored next to Moon Song with Jerry and Nola. Actually, we heard from Jan (aka fairy sister) that they were here so it was not a huge surprise. Well, nap time is calling me and there are just a few pages left in the Da Vinci Code. Yes, everyone who said "Hope, you HAVE to read this book" was correct. Wow, what a story! So off to dream land for a while and I'll write more tomorrow.
Love to all
from the yin side
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