It's Mid October!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well time is sure flying by, but we are still having fun.

We are back in Santa Rosalia, a small French colonial town on the Baja side of the sea of Cortez. It boasts a prefabricated steel framed church by Monsieur Eiffel. Also renowned among cruisers for its bacon wrapped hot dogs, but the satnd is shut every time we go by. Pepe makes great shrimp tacos though.

We have spent the last month in some remote Islands, really fabulous and getting cooler. We feel chilly snorkelling n 85° water after the summer 95°.

Done a lot of spear fishing, mostly for grouper which are fabulous eating. Since we don't have any refrigeration we like the medium sized ones which feed us all well for two meals. Steff got a recipe for fish sausage which makes a really good spicy pasta sauce!

The nice thing about the cooler weather is that it is fun to go hiking again, and we don't spend the whole day feeling whacked.

We had a break in Ontario for Steff's parents 50th wedding anniversary ( a little early) and Charlie went to Switzerland for a meeting. Welcome injection of green scenery, the desert burns your eyes after a while.Steffs parents enjoyed all eight grandchildren together for the first time. It was fun.

It is dry, hot and barren here but spectacular.

More soon, Charlie Steff and the teen monsters