After getting up early this morning to boil and then grill and baste the pork ribs in sauce, we were ready for our friends, Muzzi and Rob, to arrive. They had actually come to the yacht club early and were working on their 45 foot St. Francis catamaran while we were putting the final touches on our Sunday BBQ meal. Their boat is parked right next to ours.

When they arrived, we showed them our video of the momma Cape Fur seal and her pup doing “synchronized swimming” under our boat. Muzzi is a marine biologist and we had hopes that she would have insights to what we saw. One of our blog readers, DR Ware, has done some research into this and has suggested that it is their way of cooling their body temperatures down. He may be right but the water temperature is so much colder here than the air temperature that we just are not sure.

Muzzi said she would have to look further into their behavior but she noted that they may be letting a big meal digest. She said that they typically lie on their backs on the water surface to help in the digressive process. They would seek safety under our boat to do this. However, she too was a bit mystified as to why they would float with the flippers held up out of the water. The mystery continues…

We had a wonderful time with our friends and Mary Margaret’s five bean salad, potato salad and dark chocolate brownies were a bit hit. My ribs married well with her yummies and by the time we were done, we were all stuffed and a bone yard of rib bones rested on our plates. Boy, do I love this meal!