Well since our last guest left we have mostly been: playing with the fishies, visiting other boats for dinner, watching amazing sunsets and yes an occasional green flash thrown in. Of course there is some boat work too like cleaning the stainless steel and charging the boat batteries, engine checks and making water, even a little bottom cleaning.
Time to boast. We are card carrying lion fish hunters, and we even have our own spears. We know, why we would want to kill such a beautiful fish, well lion fish are very prolific and also very veracious eaters of other fish. They can decimate a reef of all the little fish in less then a month and to add to problem, lionfish are not native to the Caribbean so they have no natural enemy. So with our little spear and along with most of the dive shops on the island and some other cruisers in the anchorage we are out trying to make a dent on the lionfish population. By the way a 2 year female lionfish lays 2 million eggs a year. Anyway Karen to date has killed 15 and Cheryl 13 (Cheryl is behind because she was sick for a week but she will soon catch up….no we are not competitive on Interlude). We have noticed that there appear to be a lot less lion fish compared to say a month ago so maybe all of us are having an impact. One boat (Hooligan) has killed over 300 lionfish so they are our heroes.
When we are not growing gills, we have had a few terra firma get togethers on an old dock by us for a potluck with all of the boats in the anchorage, a night of great food and banter, but mostly of our days are filled with diving, reading and occasional water pole game thrown in….of course water polo is only at it best when there are high winds and seas, just to add some fun and lots of exercise.
Just a side note. Cheryl went to the doctor because she had a stomach bug, she got into the doctor in 45 minutes got some amazing drugs and was out in 5 minutes and the total bill including drugs was $35. Cheryl is all fixed up and ready to start the hunt again. For excitement next week we are off to get our teeth checked and clean all for $35. By the way the dentist cleans your teeth.
Well it back to another amazing sun set and time to get ready for our next guest who will be arriving at the end of the month.
