The wind calmed down over night. The next day, it came up again, but more off to the northwest. About mid-day, I noticed the wind was coming directly onshore. The waves started to die in the afternoon when the northern wind machine shut down and quit driving the swells from the north. Eddie surveyed the situation.

I retrieved a big pomo boulder from the beach. Here's Atlas with a chunk of the world.

As usual, the deceiving calm lures mariners like the sirens of old. Pandro and the boys thought about trying to pick a good set to launch, but better sense prevailed and they postponed it until the morrow. I whipped up a dyno batch of Deano's chile verde using our new flame diffuser. Several hours later, we wolfed nearly the whole 5 pounds of pork.The 3 dudes hung out at dusk in Dean & Cathy's cafe.

After dinner, the guys retired to Pandro's trailer to play dominoes.

Sunday started out beautifully calm. The waning crescent and Venus appeared in the predawn sky.

The predawn morning was calm and cool. As usual, all the panoramas on the following pages are displayed as 680-pixel-wide images. This is the same width as the other pictures (they're 680 x 510). If you like the image and want to see it full-size, click on the image. JavaScript will open a new resizable window with scroll bars to display the full size (510 pixels high) panorama.

Marwan checked out the birds hanging just offshore.

The islands were silhouetted by a crimson glow.