We pulled into Prisoner's Harbor at about 1:30 PM, anchored in less than 20' of water between the pier and the West wall, and had a relaxing lunch. After the Island Packers charter boat left we launched our RIB dinghy, putted around a bit, and then landed on the beach West of the pier.
On Saturday we left Bubba in his crate and took a one hour hike up the trail towards Chinese Harbor. We encountered a baby snake and four Island Foxes along the way. Two foxes were grazing and playing in a grassy area along the cliff. We spotted two more foxes walking towards us on the trail. They seemed remarkably tame and did not appear to be too concerned about us. It was cute watching them carry on. They are very beautiful animals and act very dog like.
By the end of our hike the tide had dropped another five or six feet making the descent down the ladder from the pier to our dinghy a bit scary for LeeAnne.
The weather was beautiful all weekend. We had clear skies and warm weather during the day and cool at night. It was probably the best weekend of the year weather wise! The only problem was that from Sat night at about 10:00 PM to Sunday morning at 2:00 AM a nasty chop blew in from the Santa Ana winds. It never got too windy; however, the chop from the wind waves made a lot of noise and kept us awake.We pulled up our anchor at about 9:45 Sunday morning and headed back to Channel Islands Harbor. The winds were variable and on our nose at first so we motored along under autopilot. After an hour or so we had a NW wind and rose our sails to pickup some speed while motor sailing home.
It was a beautiful way to spend the weekend!
