e next couple of days were beautiful, with some wind out of the North. In fact the high winds forecast kept us in the Port of San Luis for two days. The winds were to break Saturday, Nov. 15th, and that would make getting around Point Arguello and Point Conception much more pleasant. The current conditions of 12 foot seas and 20 to 25 mile and hour gusts were the not the weather we wanted to encounter when we went around the points. So one day we called the water taxi, hailing them on channel 12. It is a free service provided by the port and gratuities for the pilot are all that is required. So they came to the boat and we stepped off the swim platform onto the skiff and we went to the pier and had lunch at the restaurant there.
The next day was not quite so windy to we took down the dinghy and motored over to the Avila Pier.
The Pier has an area where you tie the stern of your dinghy to a set of floating mooring balls and your bow to a metal ladder that you climb up about 12 to 15 feet. With the surge, it was a little challenging, but not as difficult as I thought it would be. We spent the day walking around the small town of Avila and having brunch. We returned to the ladder climbed down boarded the dinghy and headed for the boat. 
We would need to be up early Saturday morning for the 11 hour day to Santa Barbara Harbor.
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