Wednesday
Wind! Finally! Elias is up early and dying to wind surf. Kyle and I follow in the dinghy.
After we all fail, we go to
shore to re-rig.
I make several
hundred feet, but lose much ground to windward.
Barely 9:00
and I’m ready for a nap.
Off to the
Blue Hole.
A close reach doing 9-10 knots
over 10 feet of water zig zagging around the coral heads.
The best sailing of the week. Jean
and Denise serve lobster salad on fresh sourdough bread for lunch. Elias is now comfortable enough to play mixmaster
and learns he likes Smash Mouth and we heard the first of 50 rounds of Bob Marley.
The Blue Hole. ¼ mile in diameter, 450 feet deep. It's the dot on the map under the "R" in
Lighthouse Reef. Kyle, Denise and Claudio dive to 160 feet. Several bull sharks – real sharks – are
seen as well as numerous huge stalactites.
Elias take Jean and I snorkeling
around the edges. The most dense
concentration of corals and plants that I have ever seen.
While we snorkeled,
the dive group next to us was jigging for the sharks they’d seen, and managed to hook
one. Thankfully, they didn’t land it. The
step off the dinghy back to the boat was a bit more cautious this trip.
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