Sunset Alert

Another beautiful sunset here in La Paz tonight. Too bad it's not from Santa Rosalia or Puerto Escondido or other parts in the Sea of Cortez north of La Paz. Maybe later this summer we will be taking a few short hops to the islands near La Paz. There is still a lot of work to do to get the engine, transmission, etc. in shape to go out again. Spraying salt water can take a nasty toll on mechanical systems. But nothing that can't be fixed. With time. And in Mexico that time may take a little longer. "Manana doesn't mean 'tomorrow' here in Mexico. It just means 'not today'!" as the saying goes.

Slowly but surely things are coming together. We have now entered the hottest two months of the La Paz calendar--July and August. June is hot, but July and August are hotter, and humid on top of that. Thank goodness for the AC in our saloon hatch!!

It rarely rains in La Paz but we were awakened about 12:30 AM with a rain shower!! Ron was up closing his hatch and the back door and I raced to get the hatch in the forward stateroom closed as well as the two main doors in the saloon. We keep all of them open all night in warm weather. We can still turn the AC off at night and leave everything else open and be comfortable. That won't last much longer and we will have the AC on 24 hours a day. Thankfully La Paz does not have the flies, mosquitoes, no-see-ums and other flying creatures that can make after hours difficult as in a lot of places. But then we are in the desert here, even if we are on the Sea. Figure that out!

Oh, and the rain early this AM---3 millimeters, or approximately 1/10th of an inch!! ??Whoopee!! Even a little lightning to go along with it!

By the time it was yoga time, 8:30 AM it was getting hot and humid. But we don't move too fast; it is yoga after all! A shower afterward rejuvenated me until I could make it down the dock to Argo and the AC!

The photo is off the stern about an hour ago.