A Day Without Sunshine, 80 Degree Temps, Humidity Means You Are Not In Miami

SHIP'S LOG:

I will be going ashore tomorrow, to make a 2 mile trek to a marine concern to purchase two(2) connectors for the fuel hose for the outboard motor for the dinghy. I have to buy 2 connectors, one that goes on the hose and one that goes on the engine, because the old connectors had two rounded prongs, and they don't make them that way anymore, and the new ones have one rounded and one squared prong, so that they can sell more each time you need one. Hence the two mile walk to the nearest provider of said connectors. And that is after a one mile row and joining the Miami Yacht Club($18) for the day.

The "water Police"(?) have been very active the last couple of days, looking with particular cold and longing eye on the the owners and users of PWC - Personal Water Craft. These are those motorcycle like craft which if you won one are evidently tons of fun - loud, fast, upsetting to others, and if you don't, and you spend any time on or near the water, you grind your teeth and shamefully long for a accident to happen. The Miami Water Police have really been sticking it to anyone who is the slightest bit over the speed limits, especially in the Manatee Zones ( I have still not seen a Manatee) and with great delight have been pulling speeders over and writing out tickets, the fines for which will be hefty as everything else is down here in Florida. I spent an enjoyable afternoon today watching 36 "law breakers" get their comeuppance. I shed not a tear.


You don't want to know what the day was like weather wise, it was just more of the same. Pity.

I find it amazing that the big cruise ships, less then half a mile away in Government Cut can come in and go out without making a sound. They come in the cut, go into the turning basin, spin around and go back into the cut and mooring pointing outbound. If they didn't blow the signal whistles and if they didn't have all those bands playing Caribbean Music, you would never notice their arrivals or departures. They all be gone in the morning and a new group will come in, some in the afternoon, so overnight, and I won't hear a thing. It is amazing that something that big is that quiet.