Day 16 Wednesday, August 8,2007

By 6 am sharp we had pulled out onto lake ‘Pacifica’ and as you may have guessed the seas were very flat and wind almost nonexistent. It is not my imagination it actually is warmer, halleluiah! After the fog lifted around noon I enjoyed a sunny day reading in the cockpit and enjoying the view of the coast. We obviously motored the entire way to Eureka. To keep myself busy I let out the fishing line again today. I even changed the lure when the weather changed from overcast to sunny. But I still didn’t catch anything, darn!

We made the 67 miles to Eureka by around 6pm, but it had taken about an hour to motor all the way up the bay to the marina at the north end. We docked at the public marina and soon discovered that we were trapped! The gate to the dock locks from the inside and outside and we had no way to get a key until the office opened the next morning. Oh well at least we could relax and get a good nights sleep. They also have wireless here so that kept me busy for a couple hours at least. It is nice to be able to keep up with my emails and find out what is going on in the world every once in awhile. It seems that this will probably be my last port as it has been a while since I have seen my husband. I booked a really reasonable flight out of Eureka airport (who know there was an airport in Eureka?) for Saturday; I figured this would give me two days to see the sights. We’ll see what Eureka has to offer…