Day 6, 12/26/2010

Today, we woke up before 6AM to catch our fishing charter out of the beach just south of us at 7AM. It was windy, and there was clearly some wind chop in the swell, but it seemed pretty calm. We boarded the boat and head out to sea, only to find that it was much much windier outside of the port. We immediately turned around. My dad's friend came with us, so we drove him back to his place that's about 45 minutes north of where we were. The house his family rents sits high on top of a mountain overlooking the pacific and the beach. It was BEAUTIFUL. They have grasshoppers there the size of small dogs. You could even put a leash on one and keep it as a pet (just kidding, but they're probably about 8" long...which is crazy). The wind didn't die down at all during the afternoon, evening, or night; and it's still blowing hard. It was so hard, we couldn't even go to the beach. Too much sand blowing and the waves were trash. We rescheduled our trip for Tuesday afternoon, so hopefully the wind will cool down by then. Someone turn off that damn wind machine!