Fireworks in Southern Oregon

Very nice night aboard Kotuku. Saw quite a few whales (humpbacks it appeared) around Cape Blanco. We watched fireworks at three towns at once, Bandon, Port Orford and Brookings which was capped by an impressive rising of the almost full moon over the coastal range. Continued sailing wing and wing all night until 0500 when the wind had died to about 8 knots and with the leftover sea the rig was bouncing around a bit. We motored for about 90 minutes, enough to charge the batteries and the wind is back more westerly about 15 knots so we are broad reaching down the coast. Impressive display of Venus and Jupiter? in the early morning sky to the east. At 0700 we were about 15 miles west of Crescent City with about 255 miles to go to the gate. Cheers, Al

P.S. I talked to Al via cell phone yesterday as they were close enough to the coast to have signal. Morale seems great, sounded like they were having fun and taking lots of pictures--so much that they are already out of space on their memory cards!