We arrive in San Luis Obispo with 20 to 25 knots on our stern. Pull in and anchor for the night. We decide to leave early the next mornig so we can get to Santa Barbara ( 90 miles ) to see our daughter. At 1;13 we lift the anchor, and head out the forecast is for 20 to 25 knots with 4 to 6 foot seas. The first hour there is no wind but the seas are lousy, 4 to 6 foot at 4 seconds on the beam. We start to pickup the wind a little later and keep telling ourselves only 40 miles to go to Point Conception ( the most feared cape of them all ) Commen sense prevales and after a while we turn around and are anchored back in San Luis before day light.
We have a relaxing day, the weather is moderating and we head out the next mourning under heavy fog visibility 400 feet. A couple of hours out we pickup a non paying passenger a beautiful little neon bird with blue irradenesence wing tips, okay it was a brown chick a dee, but he was still lost in the fog. By early afternoon we have seen dophins and over 20 blue whales, very rare for this area. We have had our radar and chart plotter on all day and pick up a sail boat off our starboard side. We motor along until the wind picks up to 15 and we have a beautiful sail to Coho Bay. We invite the young couple over to our boat for happy hour ( we meet them at San Simeon ). And that ends another day.
Next morning we are off to Santa Barbara in the fog. Oil wells in the channel with lots of oil leaking all over. The water is flat calm and you can see our trail in the oil slicks, discusting.
We anchor outside of Santa Barbara, at least that is what our chart plotter says. Have not seen land for 4 days.
Pickup anchor and decide to head to Ventura for a couple of days and see if I can find my sister Patty. Missed my daughter by 2 days. Arrive at Ventura Yacht club at 14:00, very nice people helping us dock.
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