Sitting Ducks (Tuesday, March 20)

 

The wind howled all night long. We woke up early this morning to check on our wind situation and found the ocean angry. The overcast skies made it look pretty treacherous out so we decided to stay in Saddlebunch another day. We figure it’s either here or another anchorage, only the location is the difference. After a relaxing morning inside the boat, we decided to start the day and have hot dogs for brunch. We noticed our harbor neighbor, the Gemini, was also still with us. This little fact made us feel better about our decision to forego the upwind beat.

Later in the day when we saw that the couple was out on deck, Scott decided to say hello. We launched the kayak and paddled over. After a half an hour of sweet talking, Scott got us ANOTHER boat tour. Their boat was a 2002 and was a pretty good looking boat cosmetically. After the tour, we thanked them and headed back to our own boat.

This afternoon I also came to the realization that I am quite afraid of the ocean. I’m not sure if it was my childhood naivety that allowed me to go swimming carefree, or that I was daring. But here, I am having such trouble getting the nerve up to jump in the water. The water is pretty clear when the sun is shining so I think the snorkeling would be good, but I can’t seem to want to jump in. I suppose it doesn’t help that before I get set to go in Scott tells me he’ll stay on the boat to watch for sharks. The fact that he always makes me jump in first makes me feel a little less dumb knowing he must be afraid too.

Today, Scott and I have finished our books. It’s also been discovered that we didn’t pack a deck of cards. The good news for me is that I’ll read anything, so I’ll read his books next. The bad news for Scott is that he probably won’t be reading my books next after he sees the chick romance novels I brought along. Guess we’ll have to resort to keeping each other company and actually conversing for the rest of the time (that is until we go to shore and buy more books).

We had chicken drumsticks on the grill for dinner. After dinner I bunched the bones together to drag behind the boat to see what we attract. We’re chumming up sharks in case our quality bookless time doesn’t go well. We plan to leave tomorrow, windy or not, just to see how it goes. We figure if it really is too bad we can sneak right back into this harbor and anchor again.

Hoping for not such a windy night,

Lauren & Scott