Too late to blog!

Too late to blog!

Sunday 28th March 2021

It’s almost 2 hours past “boaters midnight” and far too late to start writing a blog, so the following will be brief! We just had a lovely evening aboard Cotinga with our friends Lynn and Lee. We ate Kung Pao chicken and Dry Pot Cauliflower with rice followed by ICE CREAM! We never get to eat ice cream on the boat because our freezer just isn’t up to keeping it frozen. However, Lynn and Lee brought some with them and it was great! Gloria and I went ashore this morning and wandered over to a South African gourmet food store that was really nice and bought a few things. Then we had iced coffee and blueberry muffins sitting outside a café in the center of town. When we returned to the boat in the early afternoon the wind had picked up and there was a ton of boat traffic passing the anchorage so it felt really bumpy. By the time I left to pick our guests up from the dock it was blowing 15+ knots from the west. Happily it settled down soon after that and we had margaritas in the cockpit and watched the full moon rise before dinner. When I took Lynn and Lee back to the marina in the dinghy at about 10.30 pm it was practically dead calm and an absolutely beautiful night to be out on the water. We hope you all had a great day as well.

Mike

29 53.955 N, 81 18.454 W

Moonrise over St Augustine - a tough shot on the boat, 200 mm lens, 1/10 sec at F2.8 handheld, 1600 ISO. Not brilliant - but "oughts better than nought in a crisis"