Life under Sail – on the way to Puerto Escondido

Now that we are on the move, we spend a lot of time sailing/motoring our way up into the Sea. That means that some days we might be moving for over 6 hours. The kids will tell you that there’s not a lot to do while we are moving. Now that they both have their sea legs, they actually prefer to stay below and read, play games or sleep. Of course neither of them is too bored to do extra homework. Many days we just look out at the sea.

Kelly haning out on our sail north to Puerto Escondido

Kelly likes to listen to music while we move and when Phil forces her to listen to John Coltrane she plugs in her i-pod which is usually sorely in need of a charge. Ryan, sleeps, reads (yes even Ryan has resorted to reading on the longer passages), or devises major battles with his legos. Phil watches – for whales, passing boats or interesting things ashore.

Dad looking for landmarks so we know when to turn

Ryan reading one of he Percy Jackson books below

The flippers of a sleeping sea lion that we passed on our trip north

That's a blue whale over there in the distance right in front of the other boat

If you click on the picture above you can see the whal trolling along looking for food.

I usually read. What is truly sad is that now that we have been at this for a while the kids don’t even want to come up and look at whales or other things we see in the ocean. On our passage to Puerto Escondido we came upon a whale feeding and neither of the kids came up to see it, both of them yelling up to me that “we’ve seen them before.” In this world of computer animation, the real thing just isn’t that interesting. Oh well I guess that when given the choice as a kid of watching Marlin Perkins Wild Kingdom or The Wonderful World of Disney I probably choice Walt over Marlin every time.