Seasons Greetings

The holidays have been good to us here in Juncalito. Lots to eat and drink with lots of great friends. The wind blew in the holidays with cooler weather(temperatures to 4 degrees one night had Ken putting on long johns)but still very pleasant. Christmas Eve found us at Rattlesnake beach(just down the road from us)at a bonfire with appies and cocktails, Christmas Day we had a potluck baron on beef dinner on our beach with about 16 of us, and New Years Eve was spent again with friends on the beach enjoying a "soup kitchen" where everyone brought a pot of soup. There were about 15 types of soups to try, with everything from my garlic soup to shrimp gumbo, seafood chowder and chicken veggie or lentil, there was something every ones tastes and lots of leftovers for New Years Day. The evening was capped of with fireworks in the village and we were home and in bed not too long after Baja Midnight(8:30)and no hangover in the morning!


With the wind blowing we went out sailing with Carl on one of the last days of the year. As it turned out it was the only day when the wind didn't blow until 11:30 so we motored to a nearby island and went for a hike while we waited for the wind to start picking up, which it did, so we could sail for a few hours. It turned out to be a great day for hiking and sailing, what luck!

Now, as we are in the New Year, the wind has calmed somewhat and again we are settling into the quiet days and evenings on the beach. 2012 wow, another one down!

Ken makes a toast to the holidays at Christmas dinner.

Rowing SWEET PEA to shore on our day sailing with Carl. That's BLEW in the background, Carl's 28ft Lance sailboat.

The view of Honeymoon bay with BLEW and a private yacht moored.

It was quite the hike up a rocky ridge to a the top of the island...

but what a view we had!

On New Years Eve we had another bonfire on the beach and a treat of some entertainment of some didjrity-doos (spelling???) being played.