Playing with the camera

Last week when I was in the water cleaning our prop and inspecting the bottom I took a few minutes and played with my Canon camera taking a few pictures here and there. Here are two. One is of our propeller before I cleaned it, covered in oysters and barnacles. The other was just a photo of Bruadair from under the bowsprit.

We were going to raise anchor today and move but have decided for now to stick around for tomorrow's swap meet at the marina. The more I look around on the boat the more I'm finding to get rid of. The anchorage off of Red Frog Marina is really nice, and fairly big. Most of the boats anchor next to the marina but we're anchored all by ourselves about a quarter mile away from every one else. Until now that is. We like anchoring away from the crowd but just a few minutes ago a sailboat pulled into the anchorage, went up the where everyone else is, then came and anchored right next to us. There's a ton of space all around us and he had to settle down not a hundred feet away. Imagine the parking lot of Walmart or Target. You drive up and everyone is parked as close as they can to the store front. You decide that you'll park way out at the other end of the lot with hundreds and hundreds of empty parking spot all around you, the nearest parked car a five minute walk away. Then imagine that another car pulls up and parks in the spot right next to you despite all of the wide open space. Just makes no sense.

Our new plan which is always subject to change, is to head on over to the Dark Lands on Sunday and fill up with propane early Monday morning, then back towards this way as we'll be going into the marina on Thursday. It'll be interesting being at a dock again after two year. It will also be the first time in two years that our air conditioner will be turned on, hope it works.