Yeah! We made it to Costa Rica. We are sitting in a beautiful deserted cove in Northern CR, sleeping off our 5 days of sleep deprivation before heading into Coco de Playa tomorrow to check into the country. It can take 2 days to check in by boat, and we just didn't want to do that sleep deprived and 8 hours further into the country. As Jim says, it does look like Jurassic Park here. Beautiful, but I'm not going for a nature hike.
The sail was good. Windy at times, but not outside the boat's happy zone. When it was outside Debbie's happy zone, Jim drove! Ita does not like the loud sounds or rough waves, but she's good after you get a nice rhythm going.
Dolphin's every morning and evening, and often during the night. I could see them coming for the boat likes bat's out of hell, from 1/2 a mile away, jumping and blowing. Sounded like they were yelling, "Party! Party!! Party at Morpheus!" Some mornings it was like someone had put up a Facebook Post.
Saw some more whales, way off, and this time a Manta Ray jumping and doing flips about 15 feet from the boat. Big Belly flops! We think we have Ita figured out. Not perfect, but workable.
That's all that's new from here.
Deb
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Morpheus was designed by Carl Schumacher, built by Davie Norris Boatbuilders in New Zealand and launched in 2002. She spent her first 18 months cruising the South Pacific before reaching her home port of San Francisco. Since that time, Morpheus has been raced and cruised extensively. This blog will document her ongoing adventures.
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