Day 17 Under the Boat

 Really beautiful day today the temperature is finally in the 80s. We took off on our usual dinghy ride under the low, low canal bridges and down the canals to the Southport Raw Bar.

Florance got her hair done while I took a nice long walk. I went back over the 17th Street bridge again. And we had lunch for the 4th time at the raw bar. After returning to Katmandu, I tested the water temperature and discovered that it was 76 and as it was a beautiful sunny warm day decided it was finally time to get under the boat and clean the bottom. This is something I've been putting off until we got to warmer water. It's amazing how much growth can be on the bottom of a boat. There was about a half an inch of slime and in that slime every imaginable small creature was living and decided to climb all over me as I scrubbed the boat. Was able to rinse most of them  off on the swim scoop with the shower back there. We had noticed that our friends on the Hawaiian named boat were gone this morning and assumed that they had taken off for a Gulfstream crossing. They were back again this evening. So as the prediction for next few days is for northerly winds they have decided to come down to Key Biscayne with us. The Gulfstream in northerly winds would certainly be a very uncomfortable place to be. We're looking forward to an early start tomorrow and hope that the trip will be 6' following seas.. We only have to go about 28 MI to get to get Biscayne Bay.