San Diego Land Cruise

We took a break from our boat this weekend and headed to San Diego to stay with our friends on their Amel 53’ Super Maramu.  They had gone down a few weekends before and were surprised to find a hummingbird nest with two babies in their mizzen traveler line.  Research revealed that hummingbirds leave the next after 21 days, but when we arrived they were still there.  There seemed to be a female and a male; with the female being bigger and stronger and leaving the next for several hours at a time. The male could only fly a couple of feet and mama would come every 20 minutes to feed him.  They were close enough to touch and so sweet to watch.

 We were all looking forward to getting their boat out of the slip for a day sail, but knew we couldn’t take the chance of disrupting nature.  Instead, we took in some local sites and had our first real downtime in several months.  After all, there is plenty of time for sailing.

Cruisers toast:
Endless summer. Forever young.  Only the strong survive.