Much more Sailing in the Keys

Yesterday was a fantastic day of sailing. Got to actually steer the boat for a short time, and kept it on course. You have got to use a GPS at all times as there was a ship wreck close the the surface that we would did not see and we would have got stuck on top of it if we didn't have that GPS. We did see lots of boat wrecks that are just washed up on shore. Interesting that they don't take them away. People just pillage them and leave them to rot. Modern day pirates I suppose.We were out for 8 hours.

Sailed to another island(key) called Bahai Honda. Had to sail through a bridge to get there. My captain and mates are incredibly talented, thank god. We took a break there, walked around, and had a swim. There were kids swimming there and were all excited because there was a huge sting ray right there swimming with us in the little bay. One boy had found a foot and a half long lobster. Kinda scary. Unfortunately I did not have my goggles on me at the time so I didn't see anything. A pelican peed on James.

We had to race home as there was a storm approaching with huge black clouds. We were going around 4 knots on the way there and on the way home we got the engines going as well and were going 7 knots. So it took 8 hours to go a distance of 20 kilometers. No one ever said sailing was a method of transportation. It just is.

I got incredibly sunburnt and had to get cream rubbed on my back to sleep. Got back late and made a great dinner with anything we had in our cupboard which ended up being Asparagus, chick pea, tuna, in a home made alfredo sauce which I thickened with pancake batter. And added some white wine. Pretty darned good for camping. Had some late night discussions on deck about spirituality spurred on with the wine and after dinner liquors.