What DO we do all day?
19 March 2012 | Boot Key Harbor, FL
They don't tell you about things like this in the cruising books and magazines! And sorry to disavow any notions you may have that we swing in a hammock drinking pina coladas every day! Not true. Here's proof: this photograph is of the bottom of our dinghy. You may say it looks more like an inverted forest. You may say it looks like an entire ecosystem. You may say how did you let it get like that? You may say YUK! I sure did.
The dinghy has been in the water for about 2 months here in Marathon. The water is, shall we say, rich in nutrients. It is also quite warm. So, we have a large Petri dish phenomena going on. To get the dinghy bottom clean again we BOTH scraped the growth and the underlying barnacles off for about 5 hours. Then, and only then, were we able to clean it. We have never seen this much growth before.
The reason for this flurry of activity is because we think we may have a weather window to (finally) get out of here!!! One friend said she thinks Boot Key Harbor is like Hotel California and I'm starting to see her point.
Got to go now and get back to my pina colada, err... I mean chores.