It was looking pretty sad, leaves all fell off, there was nothing but a stem and 2 little buds and voila, 2 beautiful flowers popped out. I had to apologize to Traci.
The Hamrick vessel as it sits on the T dock behind us, in front of us really as we face that way. You can see the anchor hanging back in the middle of the tunnel and it sits back from the bow about 8 or 10 feet and is really hard to see from the deck. They left on Friday to head out to the Gulf to do a little relaxing, a little sailing and whatever and when they arrived and went to drop the above anchor it seemed to have other ideas as it wasn't there. I guess the shiny stainless swivel had corroded in two and parted ways with the rest of the vessel. I have a feeling it may be right below the water line in this picture.
Ever since we got the boat a few years back, the admiral said she could smell mould when we got in bed. She has proven her nose in the past in stunning ways so I have no right to even question her smelling ability, you can't get away with nothing around her if ya know what I mean. Well I finally ripped everything apart and found the mould behind the headboard and 1 job always leads to 10 more on a boat so I expect we'll have a nearly new room soon enough.
Our new hypalon dingy sitting under it's cover on the dock. We were in need of a new one but figured it would be another year or so before that happened but a couple weeks ago I was reading the classifieds on the cruisers forum and came across an add that had been posted in July for this brand new, in the box West Marine dingy and he reposted a few weeks ago as not one person had replied to the add and it was at least $400. to $600. less than you can buy it for new at the store for. Seems a tour boat ran into and damaged their dingy while in the Bahamas and the insurance company purchased this one and had it sent to the marina they were heading to upon their return. They had patched up their damaged one and used it for the rest of the trip and this one was waiting for them on their return to the U.S. It was a little large for their boat and they were selling out and returning to "the real world" after a 2 year intermission anyway so I made an offer, picked it up the next day and saved over a thousand dollars, still get warranty, got it all registered and titled and we're ready to go. If I could only find a 15 hp 2 stroke now we'd be all set. I want the 2 stroke as they are 40 or so pounds lighter than the new 4 strokes and we have to lift it daily at the back of the boat.
It's getting to be the time of year when it's great to be in south Florida, not so hot you can't go outside and cools a little at night and the wildlife seems to return in force.
Normally the manatee munch on any floating weeds that come over the levee and as a rule only have 1 baby. Today I watched as the mother, above, left the 2 young ones to play and roll around in the slip next to us while she seemed to be rooting something up off the bottom for some time. When she finally came up they swam along beside her and seemed to be taking something from her mouth as they took turns sidling up to her like in the picture.
We got and I've installed a new 3 way fridge and a new clothes washer but I have no pics of those as yet so I'll put them in a future blog.
Thanks for reading and bye for now,
Dave
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