January 28, 2014 Tuesday

Woke up to a beautiful day.  Sunshine, birds singing in the 70's.  Yeah!  It really wasn't a mirage Curt was chasing.  Not bad for this time of the year.
Washed the boat in shorts and a T-shirt, left everything out to dry after washing off the salt water.  Walked to West Marine/Walmart 4 mile (roundtrip).  Stopped at a Greek Meat, cheese shop for some real Greek cheese and of course a bottle of Greek wine.  With instructions from the butcher on how to eat cheese by sucking on it not chewing and swallowing it immediately and also drinking wine, swishing it around in your mouth for a while letting the flavors melt together. He told us about learning how to work on a boat starting with a small boat for 8 months then was able to go on the bigger boat.  Somehow ending up here in the US.

 Curt singing all of Jimmy Buffet's songs, dock drinks etc.

I saw my shadow, sunshine I think is what caused it.

 Water not as pretty here in the marina but it's warm

 Had to take a picture of this for Jim Ellis, our home church Youth Director.  I think we should get one of these, maybe Bob Eastgate has one hidin away somewhere.

 Sponges galore from local Florida waters, the story is the divers go down with a breathing regulator connected by a  hose to a compressor on the boat, they run along the bottom of the Gulf cutting off sponges and putting them in a bag to be sent to the top of the water where they are put on the boat, covered up with a cloth that is kept wet so the black sticky substance dies and comes off the sponge with some help from the sponge divers on their way to the next sight. They alternate sights since it takes a sponge a year to grow 3 inches.  It will regrow from what is left on after cutting it.

Tuna steak leftovers approx. 1/8 of what was left from the previous meal.  Didn't taste like canned tuna or even much like fish.