June 4

June 4, 2012  Big day astronomically speaking. Full moon, lunar eclipse (which we missed because of brain inadequacies) and preparing for the transit of Venus across the sun.  We'll give you a report on that event tomorrow.  Our last neighbor (next cove over) left today.  Hurray!  We think the whole pack has moved on.  Barry thinks the boats come in waves depending on the weather window leaving Panama and the Galapagos.  We met 2 other boats who came from CA - from Half Moon Bay - 33 days, the other from SF via Catalina -21 days from Catalina. (We were 23 days...This comparing is a cruisers' thing.)  Everyone we have met so far has been friendly and helpful (well, the petrol station woman not so much).  This afternoon I am going to do the chart plotter tutorial while Barry works on his electricity.  I went for a snorkel at noon - lovely fish, warm clear water and good exercise because I had to swim quite a ways from the boat.  Barry gets his exercise changing zincs and cleaning the bits of the boat that got growth which takes a lot of exertion even though 90% of the bottom stayed clean.