Another week. Sometimes it seems like it goes fast, and sometimes it seems like it is taking so long to wait until storm season will be over and we can head out for good. We try to find new things to do here and the boat keeps us busy with fix up and clean up projects all the time. Throw in the laundry and homeschool normal stuff and overall we have plenty to do, but are excited for the day when we really get to head out. This week we have hung around here, still working on getting the inverter fixed and that will continue into next week so we took a couple of fun breaks too. We went to the GTM National Estuarine Research Reserve and learned about estuaries -since this waterway right here is an estuary. That was a cool little museum. Now we know why we haven't seen any Right whales- they are only here from December to March-Dec so we won't get to see them.
On Wed. we went on the ward Temple trip to the Orlando Temple and that was fun. That afternoon, while still in Orlando, we decided to go to a movie. We haven't been to a movie theater in many months-can't remember when. Since we are on a budget, we have avoided the theaters in St. augustine because movies are $12 or $8 for a matinee, Yikes! So we found a dollar theater in Orlando and saw the Pirate adventure movie -we are fans of clay-mation and of the pirate adventure books, so it was cute. Amazing how excited the kids were to see a dollar movie-it honestly has been forever since we made it to a theater.
Now for some boat fun!
Finally some boat action. After talking to some people and getting all the gear we were ready to try out some ocean fishing. We had a lot of fun. We left early Friday morning and headed out to 9 mile reef. Yes, it is about 9 miles straight out (East) from the inlet. We barely put in the first line and immediately caught..... a SHARK! The kids were super excited and it was kind of funny. We think it was an atlantic sharp nose- about 3 feet long. So we let it go, with our hook sadly, and a few minutes later we proceeded to catch another shark--it looked identical. Still funny, but now we were a little worried because we really didn't want to waste all our hooks. We tried a few different spots and then started catching sea bass. They were really cool looking but a little too small to keep -usually about 10 inches. Overall our total for the day was 3 sharks and 7 sea bass. There wasn't any wind so we did not get to sail, but the fishing was fun. The water was so calm, the calmest we have ever seen it. No dolphins today but we did see a HUGE sea turtle and tons of jellyfish hanging out where we were fishing. It was a fun day and we will definitely try that again.
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