As the time underway clock ticks past 52 hours, I'm just outside Bahia De Todos Santos, the home of the Port of Ensenada. In about 15 minutes I'll hang a right and be headed right at the port entrance to go to the Cruise Port Village Marina for a few days of paperwork, laundry, and maybe pizza and beer. In that order of importance.  

I think I got to experience the entire continuum of "the Bash". From a lovely sunny, warm, calm day on Wednesday that transitioned to a windy, swelly, gray Thursday. Then Thursday continued to get more windy and more swelly and I altered course to head for one of my bail out options to anchor Thursday night because I'd had enough of 25+ kts of wind, and 6-8+ swells smashing over the boat.  But the forecast for Thursday was that the winds would start to abate just before I got to Bahia Santa Maria (the bail out spot).  

Ultimately, though it was  a slow process, the winds and swells mellowed on Thursday night and allowed me to continue on through the second night. By this morning the winds were only 5-10 kts and virtually no swell (1-2'). Other than being gray and overcast it was great motoring conditions. 

This morning somehow the entire ocean was put on rewind.  I'm headed the same direction I was pouding into swells but now  have  a following sea. I had wind on the nose all through the rest of the trip, and this morning it has clocked around to be from the stern or beam.  It amazes me that so much weather can change to it's opposite so quickly. But I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth and I'll just cruise on into the harbor and get tied up. 

Next steps, paperwork, warm shower, hot dinner, cold beer. I can do this!