On to Marina Del Rey

Had a great time with beer and bocci ball Thurs. evening at Channel Island Y.C., then went to the Sat. evening "name that tune" dinner/dance, that was a real hoot. This is a MUST stop for any one heading south, they are a great club and a lot of fun, they made us promise to stop by when we go back north, one member gave LaVon his cowboy hat and told her that she has to return it on our way back she wound up leaving it at the club with a note that we don't have room for more "stuff" on board but we will be back.
Sunday we headed to Marina Del Rey, great trip 1' swells at 8 secs. some of the time the ocean was like glass, little or no wind until we got to Marina Del Rey. We had dolphins running under our bow, 75 degrees out sun shinning.
Marina Del Rey is a busy harbor on a Sun. afternoon but they have traffic separator buoys in the channel coming in and out. Power boats stay on the outside edge of the channel by the jetties on the way in and out and the sailboats are restricted to the center of the channel this make for a great system.
We had a little trouble finding the guest dock, we had a non boater receptionist on the phone trying to give us directions so we tied up on an end tie and ask a member that was close by on his boat "where is your guest dock" he pointed it out and came down to help us tie up.
The club is closed on Mon. and Tues. as many of the clubs are so there is not much activity around here. I peddled off to a chandlery, I'm still looking for a chock to replace the one we had torn off up in the delta, no luck!
We called our friend from Pittsburg Y.C. and made plans for dinner then we peddled off to Costco, now that is a real challenge, go shopping at Costco on your bicycle. We could only buy what would fit in 4 grocery bags because the saddlebags on each bike will only hold 2 bags. We got a few strange looks at Costco as we loaded our bikes but you do what you gotta do. One guy commented "bicycles, I like to see that" I didn't tell him that we burned 700 gallons of diesel to get here!
In another 3 to 4 days we have to meet another friend probably at Redondo Beach then on to San Pedro, L.A., Long Beach, Los Alamitos Bay and around then we will fly home for two to three weeks.
Weather here is still cool and overcast until noon and then in the 70s in the afternoon, not as warm as normal, we do want to make a trip out to Catalina Island but we may not do that until we come back from our trip home.
We're having a great time, keep in touch, we love to read the comments people leave.
Irv & LaVon