When we arrived at the exact same time as the squall we decided not to attempt to drop the anchor while there were ground strikes happening all around us. We know this will change one day in the future so we are thankful for every mini-squall we get to experience. We haven’t seen winds above 32 knots or waves above 6-8 feet. The storms we’ve experienced so far have been mild. We’ll take it, she could have made it a lot worse on us! It was a good lesson learned in a forgiving environment on nice calm day. If we’re going to be sailing through an area with skinny water, we know not to even bother attempting it at anything other than high tide. What a day! It was mother nature’s way of showing us yet again that timing is everything and we are always on her schedule. I am still itching from all those bug bites! Florida has a competition going on between the mosquitoes and the no-see-ums for most blood drawn. Turns out, we picked the perfect training grounds inside Biscayne National Park. It’s something we’re going to have to get comfortable sailing in because we have a lot of it in our future (especially in the Bahamas). Sailors call the shallows “skinny water”. Now that it’s happened we can relax and stop parking at the far end of every lot trying to avoid it. It’s like getting that first ding in your car door. I wish I could say that it won’t happen again but I know it will. We’re newbie sailors, these types of woes are expected. I slapped my palm onto my forehead and then shook it off. I knew exactly what was going on, our hulls were sitting on the sea floor. The sounds were all there but the movement wasn’t. There is always water lapping against the hulls, a current steadily pulling and the wind blowing us this way and that. Because when you live on a boat, the world is never still. Like a baby in her mother’s arms, the moment the rocking stopped, I woke up.
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