We made plans to meet Cindy and Alex for lunch. Their boat is in the mooring field as the marinas are all full. The mooring field is 226 anchorages with a large ball that floats and you can tie up to it for a fee, rather than just anchor. All we had to do, was find them amongst those 226 boats. The mooring balls were labeled so we did eventually find them. Under the boats’ names on their sterns is the name of the place the boat comes from. We saw boats from everywhere, even Alaska. Many of them are here waiting for a weather window good enough to make it to the Bahamas or Cuba. We heard every mooring ball is taken at this time.
Our destination was Chiki Tiki at Burdines.
Cindy and Alex are in their dinghy ahead of us.
We enjoyed lunch and a couple of beers while
making plans to go fishing in Tug Hill Tug.
The Loopers and dock neighbors were having a BBQ pork chop/potluck dinner tonight and invited us. It was a fun night. Pretty much everyone had a southern drawl or a New York accent. We felt a bit out of place with our Minnesota accent.
It’s a fun loving, social group of folks. Some of the guys had found an old broken table and carried it back to the dock and they fixed it up. They then decided to go back to where they found the table and bring back the tv set that was also sitting next to the curb. No big deal that it had rained on it for two days. Plugged it in. Worked ok, except for a fuzzy grey line through the center of the picture. Now if you’re a guy, there’s something to fix and you don’t have a tool at the moment, what do you do? That’s right. You give it a couple of good whacks on the top. The T.V. comes in clear as a bell now. Next day someone found a patio umbrella at the curb so they contributed that. I think it was at this point that someone thought they should have a party, hence the BBQ.
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