Keeping our cool amidst EXTREME spontaneity

My weather app today said 'Dangerous Humidity'. Being from the pacific northwest, you would think I would know what that means. But I didn't. And now I do. It means that we love our air conditioned apartment in Mexico and we love our air conditioned car and we even love the air conditioned grocery store. Anything else is bearable for about 5 minutes. We have NOT yet acclimated.

The first night in town, our friends set off their liferaft that was 20 years old. It was informative to watch and we were all amazed that it still worked. Although it took quite some time to get it to deploy. Dan sat inside for a few minutes and was relieved that he didn't have to be in there more than a few...you can't see it from the picture but he was literally dripping sweat.

Dan testing out the liferaft and checking out the 'air hole'

Sunrise at the boat yard - while its still cool, we'll probably see a lot of these!

Going back a few days, we successfully made our first trip back to the boat (Tucson to Puerto Penasco) and cut a hole in the plastic wrap that was shrunk to the boat. Our border crossing was trouble free and pleasant, despite our car being so weighted down we weren't sure the tires would clear the wheel wells.

Low rider...

We were so excited and so HOT when we arrived -- we failed to take any pictures. We reunited with some friends that we hadn't seen since San Diego. We got set up in our new micro apartment and unloaded 1/3 of the things that we'll be adding to the boat. (There are still at least two more trips from Tucson!)

This morning, we determined that getting up at 5 we could have 4 hours of work before it was 90 degrees with 80% humidity. So we turned on the starlink, opened a few hatches, got much of our running rigging up and started stowing what we could. By 11 we were crushed by the heat and went to the beach to cool off and have lunch at Manny's. We were pleased that while dusty, everything on Okisollo was ok. Our nightmares of peeled varnish and mold were fortunately unfounded.

Afternoon break at Manny's to cool off

We also spent some time musing with the owner of Cabrales Boatyard how we'll be able to get our boat 'out' of the dry storage as there are now 6 or 7 boats in front of us blocking the path. They had a record number of boats stowed for hurricane season this year and the exodus back to the water starts in the next few weeks. It will be boat Jenga for the weeks ahead. I may offer to help organize. :-)

Drone shot of Cabrales Boat yard. We are #73. We have to cross the street and down to the water to 'get out'.

We had a chance to view the Gulf of California and dip our toes in the warm water and are now eager to get off to an anchorage and some water activities. There are just a few more trips back to the states to close out our business for a few months and the bottom of the boat to paint and we'll be on our way. Hopefully, we'll be a bit more acclimated in the next few weeks and can take a few more pictures.

Just SOME of our gear to be carried to the boat

As to our schedule, each night we plan out the work we can do the next day. We don't know when we will head back to the US, as it depends on the mail that we are expecting to receive, the weather, the things we've forgotten and any papers that need US notaries. Our schedule has lots of cross outs, and scribbles as the plan literally changes every day and some cases by the hour. We keep reminding ourselves that we don't need to rush. We are definitely transitioning from shore life to boat life. So for now, we'll just take it one hour at a time.

Onward!