Finally out of Monterey and at Port San Luis

Not too much to report this blog - just that as I have access to the internet, thought I'd let everyone know where we are.
We left Monterey Sunday early and sailed through the day and night, arriving in Port San Luis Monday morning - yesterday. Again we had the big seas and strong winds for awhile - they are good of course in that we make good progress, but definitely not comfortable sailing. Suppose I'm just going to have to get used to this, must just be characteristic of the Pacific.
Once again I had cause to be very grateful for Johnny's cool head and strength, as he kept the boat's head up when we were overwhelmed by a big offshore gust.
The Santa Ana winds have been happening on this part of the coast for the past couple of days - the Coast Guard, who do an excellent job put out general warnings of weather conditions.
They lifted the warnings as of 5.00pm yesterday, so we'll leave today and head out past Point Conception. We are told by local people that once around the point the weather conditions become much less 'wild' and more tropical, like a great big lake apparently.
Coming into San Luis we saw an amazing amount of wildlife - whales playing in the water at Sunrise - Dolphins playing around our boat in the anchorage and sea lions group fishing trips.
San Luis Port is a lovely little town which was completely rebuilt about 30 years ago.
We have a few more photos to add. Perhaps the next post will be from Catalina Island.
We are all well, tanned, sometimes tired and mostly excited about what we are doing.
We miss our friends at home.

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