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February Amigos celebrating Birthdays at the Kelly Steak Fry. More on that later…

Cousins Rex & Phyllis get the award for furthest traveled coming from Missouri to celebrate Rex’s 65th Bday in the HOOD.  Shortly after their arrival a field trip to our favorite hill top restaurant El Capitan was organized. It turned out to be Rex’s actual Bday so you will better understand the photos of the day. We made sure it was a memorable one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From there Rex was wisped down town in the Little Wrecked mobile to the Little Wrecked street side bar. This looks like trouble.. In fact I’m being nice to not post all the photos taken. The  Malacon is looking great after the renovation making it a fun place to hang out.

 

 

Wrecked and heading for the Little Wrecked.!!!

Remember you can click on photos to enlarge.

 

Fun afternoon in Rocky Point.. Especially for Rex

 

No rest for the Bday boy.. Next stop JJ’s Cantina in Cholla Bay to meet more friends.

 

 

 

 

While we enjoyed drinks at JJ’s, Bill & Carol stopped by a panadería shop for a chocolate/banana cake. Yum…

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These days we have daily chores as part of our morning walk. All our table scrapes go to the pigs plus a huge helping of carats to the donks and Red the horse.

Rex & Phyllis deliver hay & water on Blanca this day.

Mama pig awaits some slop.

 

 

Brian graces us on the walk also this day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The week started out on the cold side, fortunately there’s plenty of spirits to keep us warm

Friday night means Pork Tacos and dancing at Wrecked at the Reef

Phyllis had a total knee replacement 9 weeks ago and is out there dancing. Amazing.

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Carnaval

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carnaval is a huge event in Rocky Point. They stage this parade 3 days for the community. 

 

Heather has always been a big part of our carnaval fun and is missing this year. The ladies pose to honor of her absence.

I think this was the Queen of the festivities but as you can tell there are lots of beautiful ladies.

 

 

 

 

 

Gill’s people (very taaaalllll) are in the parade again this year. Below Gill runs out to celebrate with them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great cultural event.

 

 

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Kelly Steak Fry

 

Owen and Shirley hosted another steak fry evening in honor of 6 February Bdays. Check out those steaks from the Kelly cattle business. How lucky are we? With all the dishes everybody brought what a feast.!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The birthday gang… Scott,Rex, Carol, Alyssa, Owen and Heather..

 

Happy Birthday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Gato Loco sailing..

 

Actually there are two sailing outings here. The top row of photos were from Sunday where Scott, Adrianne & Alyssa got to spend some time on the boat. It’s been a while since they were on board.

This past Wednesday (Feb 22nd) we sailed Gato Loco to Bird Island 25 miles south east of Rocky Point. About 8 miles out we ran into a huge pod of dolphins. The pod stretched nearly a mile with probably more then a 1000 dolphins. In a recent blog I mentioned we ran into a pod of 50 which was a record. Never have we had a pod this size in the area. A 1000+ will be a record hard to break. Needless to say the cameras were busy.

 

Bird Island

The colony of sea lions is the main attraction of the island but at night the island is covered with birds roosting for the night. Except for the washed shoreline the island is totally white and smells just great. This day the seas are from the west and there were 6 shrimp boats anchored to the east in calm seas resting for another nights work.

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Finally on our way home we sailed to the shore south of Rocky Point and motored up the coast checking out 10 miles of solid homes build along the beach front. Lots of new ones since we last did this.

The Cholla fun continues… Until the next Update