Quite a diverse set of experiences today! This morning our slip neighbor was washing his boat and attracted a group of Manatees. Apparently they like the hose water to drink so they show up when hose water drips or runs into the water. Later in the day we decided to wash our own boat and had a repeat visit. At one time there were six of them. The shot of the back of the boat shows them lapping up the hose water as I “thoroughly rinsed” the stern of our boat. We also went with our neighbors from Maryland to watch the mars rocket launch this morning. I will try to post the best picture of that also. The Captain. The manatees were so cute. One of the boats felt sorry for me this morning when I was searching for them, so he offered to “call” them for me. In 2 minutes they were here, slurping, actually slurping from his hose. We had a repeat of the same scenario. Ours were slurping and kissing each other. I longed for a photographer with a real lens that could have caught them close up. It was certainly something I had never seen before. One of them actually had a blue nose from the boat bottom paint. We won’t mention the one with the scar from the last boat he ran into. I should be gushing about the rocket launch but somehow the animals just do it for me – not mars. The Admiral