After days of not seeing another sailboat, well actually, weeks, we nearly collide with “Thelonious” returning also from Hawaii, (Kawaii), to Marina Del Rey. A singlehander, he hailed us on the VHF radio which got our attention to look up and there he was approaching rapidly. Out here is thousands of square miles and we nearly run into a neighbor. That punctured our adventure fantasy that we are all alone in this great expanse. So we are ‘buddy boating’ back to Marina Del Rey. OUr weather update has revealed a gale forming just out of San Francisco, so we are opting to head south and take a chance that the SoCal weather is returning to “normal” as hurricane Marie continues downsizing and moving more west–this may add one more day and some hours to our porting in ETA. Today, the squalls have mostly cleared out and the sun is shining dazingly on the beautiful blue water. We are makig more water with the RO device and getting ready to do some more fishing. We hope to bring back some fresh fish in the freezer since the solar panels are doing such a great job. Oh darn, we are having left over fish chowder tonight.