More photos from the trip......

Dolphins coming up for breath(s) were the only sounds to disturb the peace in Tenacatita - that and strange bird calls.  Morning, after a calm night's rest.....

Trips to shore to "do their thing" are times of tension and excitement for the dogs or high anxiety.  Getting off the boat means guiding them when they jump into the dink - Murray just does it and one time landed on his head. He is not the most graceful dog.  Koa does a lot of whimpering as he thinks there are waves waiting to skunk him.  Getting them back on board means muscling them up the ladder, or in Murray's case, just hauling a limp body by the handle of the life preserver while asking him to, for pete's sake, to work with the ladder.  His expression, is as usual, one of asking if someone is talking to him.

The boat in the foreground is Mind Magic and we asked him for a weather report while in Tenacatita.  He gave us one from Buoy Weather that sounded ok, but I remembered firing them when we came down the coast, so we were on our own.  What was strange was that he said he remembered us from his dock in Long Beach, as he remembered the shepherds.  Never been in Long Beach on I'O. 

Those rocks are all along the coast - and when viewed from the ocean, while underway, are spectacular with breaking surf foaming up the cliffs.  I kept seeing an astonishing slice of pure turquoise color agains the cliffs and finally realized we were seeing  sunlight coming through the giant waves  before they break.   Absolute magic. This view is from the lovely little harbor of Cuestocomate.