Sunday is departure from Cabrillo anchorage. It has been a good spot to hang out! There are hot showers at the bath house by the aquarium and the aquarium has a research library to study the natural history of the area and offshore. There is also a small wetlands preserve just ashore of the anchorage. I enter the wetlands at high tide and see an unusual concentration of wildlife. There is a family of racoons that search the water’s perimeter and a resident belted kingfisher atop a dead tree. Mudhens and newly arrived bufflehead ducks, on their way north, crowd the water. On the banks are willits, godwits and two immature great blue herons looking gangly and unfinished. Out in the anchorage brant, a small sea goose, are also newly arrived on their long migration north. The anchorage sits below an air force housing facility and its necessary to walk some distance either way to get up to the city streets. Sunday forcast indicates that I will be able to use a NNEer in the early morning and a Wer to finish a sail to Paradise Cove but unless I make real good time I may pop in to Marina Del Rey or Redondo Harbor for a few days. I hope to be at Channel Islands Harbor by April 16th for the SW VFP conference in Ventura that weekend.
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