Enroute to Ecuador, May 20th, 2008

A VERY HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY TO OUR SON, GREG!! And, yes, I was only 12 when he was born...that's my story, and I'm sticking with it! How very different were our lives 30 years ago!!
We are still motor sailing, and now have about a one knot current against us. Zephyrus is about 38 nm's behind us as I write this (11 am Ecuador time).
We haven't had any rain for the past 24 hours, but things are sure cooling down. Water temperature has gone from about 29 to 24 Celsius (from close to 90 F, down to 76 or so), and that is effecting the temperature of the air as well. I wore a T-shirt over a beach dress, last night, and used a beach towel to cover my legs. Almost time for a jacket! I know, whine, whine, whine!!
Speaking of wine, we are having a good "drying out", alcohol-wise, as one doesn't really feel much like drinking. And, if we did, we'd both probably fall asleep. Getting enough rest is the hardest part of the journey, so far...that and preparing meals, showering, walking, sitting, amusing ourselves...but I digress!

We still had our "albatross?" with us until about 8am this morning. He left for a short time yesterday, but returned to spend the night. We'll see if he comes back again. I think not as he's been gone for a couple of hours now.

This afternoon, we were visited by yet another bird...a gull of some sort. It was great fun to watch him skate around on the solar panel!

We have been spammed on our boat address...for viagra...just about the farthest thing from MY mind, at least. It is very frustrating to wait for HAM to download that crap!! Seems to be related to sending these messages to the blog. Where are we safe from this??
We should cross the equator tomorrow afternoon, supposing we don't get more current than we already have. We hope to arrive in Bahia de Caraquez Thursday afternoon, all going well.
Lat: 01 50 North
Long: 081 52 West
Distance made good: 111 nm
Distance remaining: 162 nm