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| We are in Palm tree land now |
For the first time since way back in July at Roscoe Inlet we are now seeing water temperatures above 15 degrees Celsius. To be fair, Roscoe was a big anomaly in the land of really cold water, in fact Sea Rover probably hasn't seen consistent water temperatures above 20 for almost 20 years.
We are now in the land of sun and sand and can really feel it. Everyone told us it would get warmer south of Point Conception and when we did round it we scoffed and laughed at them. Our first weekend in Santa Barbara saw us wearing toques and rain slickers. In fact our arrival in most of these Californian ports has been greeted with happy locals thanking us for brining the desperately needed rain. Santa Barbara was certainly no exception with a deluge of just over an inch in 2 hours on the eve of our arrival.
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| Birds of Paradice |
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| Frangipanis |
Wandering around Santa Barbara we started noticing things… Is that a palm tree? Are those Frangipanis and Bird of Paradise flowers? Now that the cold front has passed we are expecting to see air temperatures in to the 90’s. It's shorts and sunhats in November! Yes things look like they are finally changing and we are happy to be free of our long underwear and parkas.
Isn't Santa Barbara lovely!!!! Although we Really enjoyed the haha... A big part of me wishes we had actually enjoyed the trip south, much more slowly, as you are! (With ever more trips to Trader Joes!). We are almost free of commitment for a couple of months, able to drift with the tides. We are currently visiting with my mom in Paradise Village. We move to Marina Vallarta tomorrow, for a week. Then we will take part in the Banderas Bay Blast and check out the area much more thoroughly! We will head north (gasp!) and back up to Isla Isabel, which
ReplyDeleteWe had to blow by on the route south. We want to see the little towns of Chacala and the rest in that area.
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