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I Have a New Website

It has been a long time since I have visited this blog and it was fun to read about our first couple of years cruising. I found that it was easier to post on FaceBook and more difficult to post on both places. However, I have just started a new website about diving and snorkeling and the critters you can see.

Spiraserpula--What's That!!???

The boat’s unique name is the result of Bill’s desire to follow the time honored tradition of naming a boat after a wife, girlfriend, or daughter, with a “logical” twist (as in If A=B and B=C, Then A=C). The logic follows that If a worm is named after Gayle AND the boat is named after the worm, THEN the boat is named after Gayle. Indeed Gayle has a marine worm named after her, Spiraserpula plaiae in recognition of her discovery of the species-specific structures found in the worm’s tube. The logo shows the structures in the tube for Gayle’s worm. The tongue-twister name is often perceived as Sassparilla which we have learned to respond to. So far we have not met a boat named Sassparilla.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Today's the Day

Bill keeps asking me if I want to get in the water.  He knows my gills are dry and I'm in the Keys and...I am sooo eager to clean the boat bottom???  NOT!  There is something about cleaning the boat bottom that I just really don't like.  It's not that is it hard work, or much of it is done upside down, or I end up with crud and amphipods all over me-None of that really bothers me.  I guess I'll do it soon since we are planning to leave for Bimini this afternoon.  One fortunate result of our pounding trip down the coast was that much of the Dragon Point Skuz was knocked off--so it won't be a bad job and I do need a shower.

Weather forecast calls for increasing east winds after tomorrow so it looks like we will head right to Morgans Bluff after checking in at Bimini.  This is a nicely sheltered anchorage with reefs all around.  Not a bad place to get stuck.

After struggling with several unreliable satellite-based internet services last year, we are going to try a Bahama's sim card in our hotspot.  If you hear from me soon you will know that it worked.

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