Monday, December 24, 2012

Jon, Jen, Lynn, and I bicycled to town for the final

Christmas shopping.  We came across the reindeer

with bells all over his body.

Happy Camper

 

The Krafts lounging in the cockpit for Happy Hour

 

Whoa!  Is a discussion/fight beginning?

 

Nope!

Look like Lovebirds!

Sunset at the Mooring Ball.  Do you see the Seahorse?

Awaiting darkness so we can go to the Mooring

Field Island Party!

 

Jon & Jen got me this Captain's hat for my birthday.

NOW, I'm really a Captain!

 

So now it's dark and we're off by dinghy to

the island about 500 feet from our boat

A nice little retreat

 

And we meet Gunther, from Germany, on a houseboat.

An engineer, he makes custom LED lighting.

Lynn enjoying Gunther's pup that he rescued

Duke!

A local party animal.

Totally snockered, he fell (then he said he was

"digging for gold", mumbled something,

and then took his dinghy back to his sailboat

Dukester!

Lynn & The Duke

Jen, Jon, The Capt, and Ryan

Ryan is from Tallahassee, FL.  He lives on a 26 foot

sailboat and works at the Harley-Davidson clothing

store in town.  He arrived with his girlfriend in November

and she said living on a boat was not for her.  He arrived

with $45 dollars in his pocket and eats at the Dollar Tree.

"It's a bit of a struggle, but I'm doing what I've always

wanted to do."

Jen & Jon looking happy & relaxed!

The Capt, Ryan, Gerry, & half of Janey (Gerry's

girlfriend).  They have the same boat as us, 41' Lagoon.

They started traveling in 2010 and spent some pretty

good times in the Bahamas last year.  They may shove

off end of January.  Or not.

Gerry, Janey, and Kyle

Kyle works downtown, somewhere

 

Gunther came by in the morning to invite us to the island Christmas Eve party,

which, of course, we accepted.  We all rode into town to finish the Christmas

shopping and stopped at Schooner's Wharf for a "finished shopping" beverage

and a great girl on the guitar.

 

Happy hour and then dinner awaiting the Island Party.  We had a great time

meeting all our new friends and stayed out until about midnight.  Pulling the

dinghy from shore we lost the dinghy plug and a rock took its place.  We didn't

notice until we were about 100 feet from shore.  By the time we got back to the

boat we had about 8 inches of water in the bottom.  No problem, the inflatables

float (Jon & I found the plug the next day).  I hit the sack but Lynn, Jon, & Jen

stayed up until 0330 prancing around looking for Santa.