Lobos de Mar

Hola,

Yesterday was our last day in Peru, so we decided to go swim w/ Los Lobos de Mar ( Sea Lions ) . For some reason they call them wolves of the sea.

The boat and crew were sadly disorganized but we have that” tranquillo, thing “going so delays and lack of direction are more or less taken in stride. Plenty to see and people to fend off while we wait J

I must say the jellyfish here are huge!! We saw some definitely as long as Anna and they look nasty. We were calling the medusa’s . We were told they don’t sting by the Captain who skin looked like beef jerky and I doubt he could swim or would ever go in the water for any reason so we took his comment under advisement only.

Layne the small and fearless made up her mind she was going in and even racked up a list of ten obstacles most people might consider reason to bail out. They included , jellyfish the size of a kite , aqua mucho freo , dead bird we saw cruising out, the fact no other passengers we jumping in, oh and Sea lions can weight about 600 lbs and swim like torpedoes w/ teeth, there were a few other but who cares, we are going in. 

We arrived at the rock island w/ some 6000 sea lions on it and it smelled something fierce. I forgot to mention we were the only travelers on the boat the rest were locals and earlier  they passed around sea sickness medicine and a glass of diarrhea inducing tainted water to wash it down… we took our chances and passed. They were also offering cotton balls swabbed w/ alcohol for the dence and quite sharp stench of these beasts. The boat pulled up wind and we all jumped in including Declan , it had that strange somewhat vonurable feeling you get when you jump in the open ocean even though we were close to this rock island. We were a few miles off shore and the water was a dark blue and deep. The Sea Lions let us swim right up to them they are very cool looking like the seals off Monomoy Island. Both Anna and Layne were on their way to joining the colony w/ there little wetsuits on.

Hope you all had a memorable Memorial Day!

"Stay within yourself, mind;

Don't go into anyone elses room.

You will get what you need right here.

Search in your own inner chamber."   Sangit

Best

Capt Ron

En route to Manta , Equador

Latitude – 9’ 31 minutes S

Longitude – 79’ 22 minutes W

Seas – 5 ft following