I did my first load of laundry this morning! Mostly towels, because all those clothes Alan told us not to bring, we haven’t worn them! It has been bathing suit time the whole trip! After laundry we packed up our snorkel gear and headed for Mermaid’s Reef, just across the street from the marina. We snorkeled out to the reef, very close in, and watched the people off the pay-to-snorkel boats feed the fish. They were beautiful! Harold’s mask still is not right, so after a half hour or so we gave it up and came back to the pool. After we got back to the boat, Hal called about something we had asked him to look for – this involved a trip to the marina to get his e-mail picture. While we were there a bunch of kids came in with several adults. It was obvious they were Boy Scouts, so, being good Eagle Scout parents, we struck up a conversation with them. They have been doing a Sea Base high adventure this week and have had some pretty harrowing experiences on their sail catamaran – they were not on board when the mast took a lightning strike and they lost all their electronics. We invited them to visit our boat to compare venues. They were all pretty impressed with our power boat – actually the thing they were really impressed with was our clock that says Who gives a SH*#. We did have a great time showing them around and they were a really swell bunch of boys and parents. 
When we came back to the boat from the pool, there was a big sport fish just across from us on the fuel dock. Whatever….When we went to the marina we looked out and saw that boat in our channel and just went about our business. Pretty soon our neighbor, Mark, came up and told us the boat had gotten loose and washed up against us and that he had come aboard to pull the pennant in, which apparently was in danger, and that no damage had been done to our boat. This was confirmed when we came back and the whole incident was blamed on the owner, rather than his captain, having tied off the boat. He was extremely apologetic to us, but all the damage was on his boat, so everything is under control.
Dinner aboard tonight and who knows what tomorrow brings! Our kidlets will be here tomorrow evening and we are very excited to see them!
When we came back to the boat from the pool, there was a big sport fish just across from us on the fuel dock. Whatever….When we went to the marina we looked out and saw that boat in our channel and just went about our business. Pretty soon our neighbor, Mark, came up and told us the boat had gotten loose and washed up against us and that he had come aboard to pull the pennant in, which apparently was in danger, and that no damage had been done to our boat. This was confirmed when we came back and the whole incident was blamed on the owner, rather than his captain, having tied off the boat. He was extremely apologetic to us, but all the damage was on his boat, so everything is under control.
Dinner aboard tonight and who knows what tomorrow brings! Our kidlets will be here tomorrow evening and we are very excited to see them!
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