Hi all -
I skipped yesterday because it was day one of the last real long sea leg. When we land in Manzanillo tomorrow afternoon it will be the first of 3 stops along the Mexican coast. I believe that at least part of this is the "Mexican Riviera". The three stops are Manzanilo, Puerta Vallara and Cabo San Lucas. I have a jeep excursion in Manza but the last two ports of call are just to stretch my legs. I look forward to Cabo in particular. I have long thought of setting a short story in Cabo… From what I’ve read and seen Baja California should be beautiful. I believe the Wonder will do some Mexican trips after this so there may be opportunity to return.
Right now we are at N 15 12′ and W 97 02′ sailing NW at just over 20 knots. This puts about even with the bottom of Mexico. Its still about 80 degrees outside and sunny. The Pacific was anything but, yesterday. But it is back to its usual calm self today. The monitors say that we have travelled over 3200 miles since we left Port Canaveral, with about 500 miles left until Manzanillo. I think we may surpass 5000 miles before this trip is over. Wow.
Because we were crossing open ocean we didn’t have much to look at yesterday. I did happen to see something awesome though – a school of flying fish. They were playing in the ship’s wake all day yesterday (and likely will be, today). Later in the day someone said they saw a whale far out to sea. I found them very difficult to photograph and the resulting pictures aren’t worth showing. It’s possible. I also saw what could have been a whale later in the day. It was very far off the port side – nearly at the horizon. Just a dot occasionally shooting water into the air. If it weren’t for the spouting I doubt any of us would have seen it.
I wanted to send a couple more Costa Rican pictures along as well.. one is of the mountains near sunset – the other is of some bananas (I think). I will leave it to the viewer to try to tell the two apart. 
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- costa rica bananas
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- costa rica mountains
