Oxnard

8/6 We fueled up at Ventura and learned a lesson, when I call around to check on fuel price some places quote full price with sales tax and some quote pump price that does not include sales tax.
We left at 10:00 before the afternoon wind picked up but by the time we got 10 miles down the coast, Oxnard had small craft warnings out and we followed a commercial fishing boat into the harbor. When those guys come in you know it's getting bumpy out on the ocean.
We spent 3 days, with SUNSHINE hanging out at Channel Islands Yacht Club. A great bunch of members, Thursday we were invited up for $1 beer, $1 hot dogs, and bocci ball, Friday night for potluck and Saturday for their dinner night. Sunday,after our allotted 3 free days we moved 1/2 mile down the channel to Pacific Corinthian Yacht Club for 3 days there. Monday evening we dinghied back to CIYC for movie night and popcorn. We had been invited to come back down to CIYC for 4 days before we leave (they waved their 3 day limit).
Sunday there is a great farmers market at the marina and we rode our bikes to town, Monday we dinghied thru the residential canals, for 1 to 1.5 million you to can have a house on the canal with your boat at your dock on the canal, we cruised on up to a shopping center with a dinghy dock and bought groceries, came back to the boat and puttered, cleaning windows and painting the boarding ladder.
Monday had cooled off and Tuesday was overcast all day, 65 degrees, the weather calls for cool days for the next week, about 15 degrees below normal. They call it their marine layer I call it overcast and chilly!
This (Tues.) was a good day to stay inside, I spent several HRS. online trying to figure what forms I need to fill out and mail to F.C.C to get my "restricted radio operaters license" (required to use your radio outside of the U.S.)
Tomorrow, Wed. we will go back to CIYC for beer, hot dogs, bocci ball, and then Sun. head out for a 5HR trip to Venice, Marina Del Rey to meet a friend we met at Pittsburg Yacht Club when we were up on the Delta.
That's all for now
Irv & LaVon