Nothing spectacular to report today…. There was a swell from the side in the Anchorage. It’s not dangerous or anything, just makes it a little uncomfortable. Duane did his magic with the side bridle, pulling the bow of the boat into the waves. Made the boat much more comfortable.
Yesterday while playing games on Bluejacket, the subject of haircuts came up. Donna said she would be willing to cut my hair...so we met on shore armed with clippers and scissors in the morning.
My hair had gotten a bit fuzzy since October when it was last cut. It's too hot and the longer hair gets in my snorkel mask, making it leak sometimes if I'm not careful.
Donna did a great job, sculpting it nice and short.
All done - time to get back to the boats.....
Back on the boat, showered to get all the itchy hair trimmings off. So nice to have a light head again! Thanks Donna!
We decided it was a good day to sail over to Hog Cay with fairly strong winds to push us along.
We joined Jerry And Donna in the cruiser hut for a nice chat at sundown. Unfortunately, it was cloudy and no green flash.
After lunch, the skies cleared enough for us to take a nice walk along the shoreline of Little Ragged.
Silly but fun. Lots more little piggies on the shoreline.
The winds are still pretty high, the shoreline was very active and beautiful!
We made it all the way to the south end of the island and walked the southern trail that we had helped trim several years ago it is in need of another group effort to keep it clear.
We will probably head back north to Hog soon for a change in scenery.
Nothing much happening here, just a breezy overcast day.
Our American flag is holding up pretty well. But it does take a lot of abuse flapping constantly in the wind. I have a spare, so will replace it when he gets ratty.
Kindof a mundane day.....I'm running low on my bread-mix packages so put several more together. This time I'm not including the yeast since that didn't work.
Did some laundry....strong breeze makes drying a snap.
I may have mentioned this gadget before....it allows me to hang up a couple of dozen small items without having to put out lots of clothes pins. Really handy for undies!!! (I'm airing "clean" laundry, not "dirty" laundry, haha).
And time for another loaf of bread....this one had a bit too much yeast, I believe as it overflowed the pan in the breadmaker.
With strong west winds, we did go out for a snorkel on the outside reef that we don't see too often. Almost all the boats had dinghies out - we stopped to chat with Darcey and Michelle a bit.
No cool photos - the coral is not too pretty out there and not many varieties of fish were found.
I made a lentil soup using my last butternut squash brought from home - that's a long time to keep a vegetable on the counter!
In case anyone is looking for a series to watch - here are a few that we've watched lately:
Squid Game 1-3 - this one is tough to watch, not for the faint of heart!
Landman
Righteous Gemstones
Twin Peaks - we never watched this in the 90's! Weird and zany
Murdoch Mysteries - good clean fun - makes up morally for all of the others above!! 😃
Another lovely day - the winds were fairly light so we went out for a snorkel.
Duane did spear a decent sized lobster. (sorry for the exposure on the photo...)
And Mr. Shark visited for quite a while after we returned to the boat. It circled over and over - we suppose it's looking for a free handout as other boats have apparently cleaned their fish right in the anchorage.
Lovely sunset - we are in for a period of unsettled weather over the next week to ten days.
We went for a nice snorkel on the protected inside coral heads. Too rough to go to the more exposed reefs.
Good exercise swimming all the way around Cocoa reef but no particularly photogenic coral pretty Queen Angelfish.
And a shy green turtle.
Back to the boat, lovely water!
We were the only ones to go ashore for sundown, we had a nice walk and a nice chat before a pretty, bug free sunset.
Lots of sargassum weed and plastic trash unfortunately.
Always fun to come upon interesting flotsam. This fender is a long way from home! I looked it up F/V Papa's Pride in Jonesport, Maine!
Papa's Pride is the boat in the foreground and has a Maine fishing permit.
Walking further we see that the huge marker buoy has been washed inland to a different location.
And a different huge steel buoy is in it's place. Note Duane standing beside it for scale!
We walked about a mile north before heading back.
I picked up a prescription bottle - still sealed and the pills rattled inside. No markings on the outside though.
I searched the internet for "pink pill 20 R" and find that these are just simple statin drugs for high cholesterol. Was hoping for something exotic, haha. Into the trash of course.
And a little different "style"....
With some approaching west winds over the next few days....the "cut" is now home to 8 catamarans....not sure why, but zero mono-hulls this year.
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