300 boats

It is Monday afternoon, happy hour at Blu and we are on the upper deck enjoying our tropical punches and overlooking Kidds Cove and our friend Rich on Shampagne.  The other night we had a Northwest Creek Marina get together with 5 boats from our old marina.  We are all going to a "Rake and Scapre" tonight at Eddies Edgewater. 

On the morning cruiser's net, they announced that the boat count was at 297 boats and we know that some had left int he last couple days.   Yesterday we had gone for a hike and on the way back, met to guys in their 20's who are sailing on a 24 foot catamarran, slightly larger than a Hobie.They are on their 6 week leave from the Canadian Coast Guard and trailered the boat to Miami and then sailed it across.  I wish I had taken pictures as no one would believe they can do this trip with such a small boat.They invited us over to their bonfire later that evening.  They had some great stories.

Today we wanted to take the dingy up the island to Prime Island Meats, a real deli and with fresh meats so much better than the local market.  Nice people too!  We picked up Mary Beth off Regina Maris and took her with us.  Also got our propane tank filled.  And bought more rum!!  Can never have too much rum.

We continue to do boat projects, got the bug screens up now, painting is done and today someone offered a water blatter which I bought.  So now we can store an additional 150 liters of drinking water, enough not to worry about with our good friends Tony and Sharon coming next week.  I still need to make up fittins to fill and draw water from the blatter.  I think we will have the boat ready when they arrive.

Time for another drink, living the good life in retirement!