Mellow Day in Marathon

Finally, a day with no travel, no workers on the boat, no projects underway! And we’re in the place everyone here refers to as “Paradise”.  The water is turquoise and clear at shallow depths, palm trees everywhere, dolphins swimming right in the harbor among the boats, and . . . wait, what is that???  How bizarre . . . it looks like a swimming lizard, but surely it can’t be . . . or can it?  Yep, we were in our dinghy departing for a cruise around the harbor and saw something weird-looking near our boat – see below! This guy is about 2 feet long from nose to tip of his tail, with a very weird face and head. We have NO idea what he is! And he swims?

This morning as we left for our run (Bob) and walk (Cathryn), we took one bicycle from the bow of the boat, loaded it into the dinghy, and took it to shore where we locked it up for the week. We’ll take the second one tomorrow. Later today Bob went back to shore in the dinghy and rode the bike to West Marine a mile away to get a part for the dinghy’s portable fuel tank.

 

We hate to whine about anything, but Cathryn can’t help  noting that the heat (84 today) and humidity (98%) , in combination, are actually a bit much.  Almost reminiscent of Cambodia last October, so Bob periodically suggests we turn on the generator and air conditioning so she can sit inside the boat’s salon and cool off for a while.  The refrigerator also suffers without the generator being turned on a couple of times each day, so Cathryn doesn’t feel too bad about  sharing in the benefit.

Our afternoon harbor cruise in the dinghy resulted in our finding another 42’ Jefferson just like ours, a sister ship! They were flying a Great Loop burghee too, so tonight we located them on the Great Loop website and called them. We learned they’d left their boat for a day-trip to Key West this morning, but we agreed to get together after the weekend is over.  It seems Loopers are everywhere!