Today was pretty good weatherwise. The wind was calm and it was sunny. Still a bit cool, but certainly a day where you wanted to get out and about. After breakfast we hopped on our bikes and rode up to Office Depot. It is about 5 miles from the marina, but we needed paper and ink cartridges and …. the big deciding factor was that we have a gift card from them. This is actually the replacement money from Linda’s last fiasco with taking her camera for a swim. After destroying her first one we got the replacement insurance on the second one so that when she ended up destroying that one, we got our money back for a replacement. However, they just sent a gift card for the replacement amount. Since we had already bought another camera, we are now using the money on the gift card for other items.
By the time we made the trip, shopped around a bit and started back, it was well after 12:00, so we decided to stop for lunch. We ended up at a place called Herbies – a local fish place. While not much to look at, the food was very good.
Back at the boat, Gerry and Michael worked on securing the boats a little better. They took lines over to the other docks to hold us off the cement wall the next time the wind blows hard from the north (which is forecast for Saturday night). All of the locals keep telling us this is MOST unusual weather. Actually, we have been hearing that almost our entire looping trip.
Later in the afternoon we walked across the street to the Marathon Marina and visited with some friends, Zoltan and Christina on Christina Diane. They are a couple from London, Ontario that we cruised with for a while down the river system. We made it back to the boat just before sunset. It proved to be one of the better ones we’ve seen since being here in Marathon. After that we ordered pizza, watched a bit of the Olympics and then called it a night.
By the time we made the trip, shopped around a bit and started back, it was well after 12:00, so we decided to stop for lunch. We ended up at a place called Herbies – a local fish place. While not much to look at, the food was very good.
Back at the boat, Gerry and Michael worked on securing the boats a little better. They took lines over to the other docks to hold us off the cement wall the next time the wind blows hard from the north (which is forecast for Saturday night). All of the locals keep telling us this is MOST unusual weather. Actually, we have been hearing that almost our entire looping trip.
Later in the afternoon we walked across the street to the Marathon Marina and visited with some friends, Zoltan and Christina on Christina Diane. They are a couple from London, Ontario that we cruised with for a while down the river system. We made it back to the boat just before sunset. It proved to be one of the better ones we’ve seen since being here in Marathon. After that we ordered pizza, watched a bit of the Olympics and then called it a night.
A few shots of the sunset ... the colors were very intense tonight with lots of deep pink
Birds in flight
... and a boat out in the distance
The moon was almost full
... and what's this you ask. It's a halo around the moon. Folklore states that it's a predictor of storms within the next 36 hours.
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