Day 514 More errands and some rest.

We took off this morning for the marina in Puff with Dragon pushing us along just great.  We had trash to take in to drop off as we expect to be off for the Channel Islands on Sunday.  We also had a car to return and some more grocery shopping to do.

George and Celeste off Nereid came along as they had errands to do also and heck, they were paying for half the car rental.  Off the the veggie stand--lots of organic veggies and then down the Trader Joe's for a few things.  Next, the Post Office as George and Celeste were expecting their mail to finally come in.  We dropped Tracy off at Ralph's Market while we took off for a market that specializes in natural foods and meats.  Back to pick up Tracy and off to Enterprise to return the car with two minutes to spare.  They took us back to the marina where we took off for Zephyr while George and Celeste went to their boat and moved it out of the marina and on to their anchor for the night.  We spent the day resting and stowing the goods we had picked up over the last two days and making plans to head out to the islands Sunday--permit or not.

It requires a permit to land on parts of Santa Cruz Island and it hasn't come through yet so we will just anchor in one of their coves and wait for it without going ashore.  Hopefully, there will be cell phone service out there so I can get on the internet to download the permit once it arrives.  If not, then we will have to up the anchor and come back till we can get on the internet and download it in a few days.

If you don't see any updates for a few days, it's because there is no cell phone service at the islands, but have no fear---I'll post as soon as I can get back on line.