After 3 days of sailing, we are back in the land of cell phones and internet connections. We sailed along the southern border of the Everglades for the past 3 days and it was AMAZING. The wind did not do exactly what it was supposed to do but we made it work. We saw so many stars at night, did not see any other boats/humans for two days, and got to let the dogs run on a desserted island in the middle of nowhere all morning. Granted we had to motor all day the first day, we did not get the wind we wanted (it was opposite day at NOAA apparently), and we started and ended today aground (not enough water in the anchorage first thing this morning and Captain wasn't paying attention and completely missed our markers and ran hard aground this evening)...
Now the Bahamas prep begins! Wal-Mart, provision, provision, provision, more Wal-Mart and then we sail back to El Griffins and then we go!! YAY!
Until next time. XO Nicole and the crew
Hola Peeps! Welcome to 2011!! We have been busy enjoy this holiday season. Christmas day our buddies the Griffins rolled (well sailed) into town and we had them over for dinner which was awesome! We spent Christmas week saying we were going to go sailing but never actually doing so. We mostly hung out, slept too late, and hung out with friends. What can I say, we are overachievers.
New Years Eve was a night of FUN! We had Mark and Beth over for dinner and MANY MANY drinks. 1 bottle of wine, 3 bottles of champagne, a six pack of beer... you get the picture.
After dinner we decided that Beth and I were going to put on some sexy shoes and find a place to dance. Before getting there my poor husband took a digger on the dock. Soaked his foot and hit his head on the dock. Anyway, we found a bar with this awesome one man show playing bluegrass music and danced our feet off. I decided to switch to water at this point because you know, yeah I had had enough to drink. My husband was not quite as smart and did a tequilla shot and had two more beers.
Walking home from said bar barefoot was interesting. We made it back to the dinghy and then back to the big boats without anyone drowning. Saturday was not a good day for 50% of the Starfish/Sea Zen crew. The other 50% were fine :-)
We are now preparing to go on a few days sail... we figure our first sail on Starfish should not be the crossing the gulf stream...
Happy New Year everyone! Hope you all have a great 2011!
XO Nicole and the crew
