Yuck!

I came down with some kind of flu-like bug this week. Yuck. Felt pretty awful for about 30 hours and now, several days later, I'm still not fully recovered. Nonetheless, I had to do some work outside in the heat in order to prepare for Chava, the certified welder who is coming on Monday. I'm having him repair the broken baffle in the water tank, weld the stanchions into the bases so they won't wiggle, and replace the wire with stainless tubing on the aft third of the lifelines. I also continued the interior woodwork refinishing, which was quite a bit easier thanks to the air conditioning and a slow pace.

Since I wasn't doing much adventuring this week, the wildlife images are mostly from around the marina.

Surf fishing in Banderas Bay

This is a small sea turtle nesting reserve about a mile down the beach from Paradise Village

These depressions in the sand are sea turtle nests.  I have no idea if they are active, but it is nesting season.

Baby iguana

Baby gecko

Green night heron

Black-bellied whistling duck

Pelican

Comorant

Frigate

Sunrise from the aft deck

Making progress on the interior refinishing

When I removed the old lifelines, three of four locking nuts on the fittings broke in half.  Makes me a bit nervous about the rig, even though I just had it surveyed.

No lifelines from the boarding gates back now.

It's amazing how much crap (I mean valuable boat gear!) gets secured to the lifelines.  I had to remove all of it and put it somewhere else that was somewhat out of the way so that the welder can work. 

I felt as bad as I looked after working a couple of hours in the heat, sun and humidity.  Yes, the dark spots on the shirt are sweat.  It didn't help that I wasn't fully recovered from my illness.