Week Seven 01/17/09

Week seven – January 11, 2009

Saturday night invited to neighbors for a “Clam Bake”. Very windy evening and they invited 8-10 couples. So they used their “toy box trailer” to host the party. 28’ long towed behind a 37’ coach. They haul their Jeep, two ATV’s, a 17’ boat and motor, and who knows what else. Anyway, after they emptied the toys, it served as a very nice party room. Met a lot of nice new people. Everyone brought a dish to pass. Clams prepared a variety of ways, on the grill, in onions and garlic, wine sauces, numerous dipping sauces, chowder soup, you name it. Was fun and very good!

Sunday through Tuesday very windy. Limited outside activities with winds gusting to 30 knots. Bob played “skins golf” with a bunch of guys. Shari took a “girl” shopping road trip into town and lunch at Jorjes. Shari had Tortilla soup and the other gals had Shrimp soup and Cheese soup. Very good. Bob climbed a nearby mountain.

Wednesday / Thursday, Shari had a pedicure in the park only $15, Bob played Golf. A retired RV biologist in the park gave a very nice talk on aquatic life in the sea around us, specifically the calms, oysters, squib, octopus, reproduction, feeding, etc. Thursday ended with a very nice social happy hour, all bringing a dish to pass, so really served as supper.

Friday the 16^th, Bob got invited to go fishing with a fellow RV acquaintance at the social hour. Up at 7:00am for an 8:00am departure. Day looked beautiful. He carrys a 10’ Portable Fold up Boat in his RV 5^th wheel along with a 6 hp motor. Hauls in the back of his pick up truck when not traveling. Works out very nice and quite stable for the two of us. Well, no shortly after launching we were being entertained by 5 Dolphins, sometimes right next to the boat. Played with us for some time. Fun!

Then got situated in my friends favorite fishing spot. Water level varies from 3’ to 40’ at 61 degr and we were after bottom feeders in the 40’ water. Wind picked, so became difficult to hold the anchor and wound up drifting and or controlling the boat with the motor. No sooner finding the forty foot water and we had fish. Man! Did we have fish. Two and four at a time. These were locally called Sea Bass, but I think there is a more technical name that I don’t know. Anyway, they resemble a very large jumbo fresh water perch or a small walleye. Rigged with a two hook, heavy weighted Wolf type harness baited with squib tentacles. No sooner hitting bottom, and generally got two fish on at once. Man do they fight. Kept and cleaned around 50, then went to catch and release. Fun! Evening, joined a group into town, yea, over the rough 12 mile road, but recently graded so better. Road with neighbor RVr’s that needed to do some shopping, so invited us to ride along. Shopped, then went to the “ Potato Restaurant” for supper. Incredibly large baked potato grilled & stuffed with steak, cheese, and served with all the topping goodies you can imagine. A very good meal. Shari and I spilt one with a side Taco each.

Then stopped at a local ice cream joint for desert, not my idea, but shared anyway.

Saturday the 17^th, last day in Kino Bay, so pack up and prepare to head out. Morning started with a breakfast burrito in the club house. Sorry to have to leave, but at the same time ready. Kino Bay was fun and met a lot of great people. The negative is the “Wind”. When it comes up pretty much eliminates outside activities, and being so far from town on a rough road, not much to do. We will be back one day.

End of Week Seven