10-day - santa rosa island revisited - B&W holga shots

After staying at San Miguel for 4 days, the northwesterlies came up and we pushed to the backside of Santa Rosa using sails and the sweet free power of wind.

...while ignoring the fact that ross is on his cell phone, check out the seemingly dreamy softness and glow of sailing (for those of you who have never sailed, it's always like that)

Ian sitting pretty portside

We got around South Point and the wind died. We motored to Ford Point where it was sheet glass with no other boat in sight. There was a pristine 100 foot tall sand dune to the east...it was decided that our surfing that day would be done on land.

After taking the kayak and lil visitor to shore, RP and I climbed up the dunes with body boards while Ross and Ian hauled up the kayak...such a fun ride. We all traded, standing up on body boards. Ross even went down standing up on the kayak! When we thought we were done from the exhausting hike back up the dune, we'd get pumped watching a buddy come down and run back up. We ended having 6 'last goes' each because it was tiring but too much fun to stop.

Ross and Ian on the kayak test run - fresh powder - first tracks

That's our beloved Corsair in the background, with lil visitor on the beach. This was also the same day that we did the cliff jumps and hung out around the secret elephant seal pool on San Miguel...maybe the best day of the trip?...we definitely slept quite well that night.