We kicked off the week with more Regatta events. Bubba played in the fun volleyball tournament on Tuesday morning and later played poker where he won the tournament.
While I waited for Bubba to return from poker I was able to get some really good photos of one of the many turtles we have in our anchorage. These guys don’t stay up for long. It just so happened there was zero wind and I had walked to the door to shut it because it was getting close to no seeum and mosquito time. When I went to close the door I spotted this guy munching on the mooring line.
On Wednesday Bubba and Debbie headed over to the beach near Monument to play beach golf.
Meanwhile back at the boat I am fighting fires with one of the companies I work with. I won’t bore you with the nonsense, I might just be getting too old to deal with retail bullshit any more.
Later that afternoon we joined the other cruisers to check out the Dress Like Your Boat Costume Party.
On Thursday was the Big Boat race around the island. I think I read that it was an 18 mile sail around. We did not participate. Bubba did errands that morning and played cards in the afternoon. He was not lucky enough to win this tournament. He blamed it on me because he had to get back in time to take me across the way to get the laundry. Tess was happy to have the bed linens back so she could have a made bed to sleep in.
Bubba signed me up for the Paddle Board race on Friday morning. After the week I had I was tired and the wind had picked up so I decided to set the race out and get some stuff done around the boat as I answered emails as they came in. Later that afternoon we headed over to the beach behind our boat for Hurricane Hole 2 birthdays. It’s always fun getting together with our neighbors.
Hip Hip Hooray for Saturday! Finally a day off from work, time to get off the boat and have some fun. I decided to pop open a bottle of Prosecco and enjoy some time on the front of the boat in my bean bag chair. I later hitched a ride with Tracey and John over to Chat N Chill to watch the Coconut Challenge. It was hilariously funny to watch and fun to cheer the teams on. Here is the gist of the challenge: Boaters must remove motors from Dinghies. Boaters can only use flippers like for snorkeling for their propulsion through the water. Boaters must try to retrieve as many coconuts from the water that they can in a certain amount of time. There was even a golden coconut (actually it was painted white).
After the Coconut Challenge we went back to the boat, grabbed some snacks, and played Mexican train. I won the first round, I think Bubba won once or twice and John as well.
At 4:00 we went to the ARG (Alcohol Research Group) meeting. Basically a bunch of cruisers meet at the beach, bring drinks, bring snacks and chat with each other. It is a great way to meet new people,
Saturday night got a little scary. There was no wind, not a ripple to the water, and we were at slack tide. Our boat and John/Tracey’s boats turned stern to stern and our solar panel array were touching each other. It was a crazy situation as we have been in this location for almost two months and this is the first time this has happened. Every boat was pointing in a different direction. We are going to have more light winds this coming week so we will have to watch this closely.
Sunday morning we got up and went to beach church. We then headed out to do some snorkeling. The snorkeling was awesome, could have used some more fish but the elkhorn made up for it.
We left this spot and went over to call the turtles at Hooper’s Bay. We pulled up to the beach front and began splashing the water and sure enough two turtles approach the boat.
We left there and headed over to Da Sand Bar to quench our thirst after all of the snorkeling.
We enjoyed the water at Da Sand Bar and then hopped in the dinghy to head over to a bar/restaurant called Splash. The boys had visited this place during their dinghy poker run. The food was good and the Splash drink we had was also good.
It was a great way to end the weekend!