Sailin' on Monterey Bay

Yesterday Guido, Brooke, and I went sailing on Monterey Bay...Guido's a veteran expert sailor with his own boat...a comfy 27 footer. It was a crisp, brilliant winter day with a warm sun. Not quite as much wind as we would have liked, but we sailed for a couple of hours. Very tranquil. We saw a sloat surfing the swells; pelicans divebombing for fish; and we did a little fishing of our own. Didn't see any whales; they should show up in a few weeks. January to March is the main whale season. There were a number of whale watching boats sharing the water with us; guess they got skunked too!

Pelican taking a break in between dive bomb attacks on the local fishies. Pelicans are the jet fighters of the bird world!

Guido holding up a couple of fish...we caught about half a dozen overall. Sometimes they nibbled the bait and got away with it, but on one cast I got three fish on a total of five hooks!

A pelican prepares to dive bomb a fish.