Today we slept in as late as possible, I think around 8:30 AM. I actually woke up way earlier and just laid in bed and finished my book. Today was a pretty lazy day. We went to the beach for a while and then came back to make lunch. We decided to try and cook that Tile fish we bought from Paul. I attempted to cut some fillets out it, rubbed it down with Old Bay, and then grilled it. It really wasn’t all that bad, but Hope couldn’t eat much of it because of the Mercury levels in Tile fish.
Back to the beach for a while. We made arrangements to meet Leslie at the PCBC office at 4 PM to check out and print off our boarding passes, so we had a few hours to kill on the beach. I wanted to snorkel around today, but the water was a little rough so we just relaxed.
At about 4:20 we headed to the office and took care of business. We settled all of our tabs, Leslie arranged our taxi for the morning, and the boarding passes were printed. When we got back to the Boat House, I noticed the water was up again in Alligator Creek.
I decided to make one more attempt to find the channel that Ned talked about that supposedly had all the wildlife in it. No luck. I paddled against the wind and current for over an hour, until the Boat House was just a dot in the distance behind me. I never found water more than a few feet deep. I did, however, finally see a sea turtle. Ahead of me I saw a dark shadow in the water. It was moving so fast, and the water so shallow, that I assumed it was a flounder. But, when the canoe drifter closer I could see that it was indeed a turtle. I always assumed turtles were slow and lazy, but as soon as I got my camera out, this guy darted away in the blink of an eye. No luck for a picture.
I decided to make one more attempt to find the channel that Ned talked about that supposedly had all the wildlife in it. No luck. I paddled against the wind and current for over an hour, until the Boat House was just a dot in the distance behind me. I never found water more than a few feet deep. I did, however, finally see a sea turtle. Ahead of me I saw a dark shadow in the water. It was moving so fast, and the water so shallow, that I assumed it was a flounder. But, when the canoe drifter closer I could see that it was indeed a turtle. I always assumed turtles were slow and lazy, but as soon as I got my camera out, this guy darted away in the blink of an eye. No luck for a picture.I finally made it back to the Boat House and Hope had already patted out the turkey burgers. And mmm mmm did they look good. Ok, not really. I loaded them up with more Old Bay and salt and threw them on the grill. They weren’t terrible, but like most of the food we had, it just wasn’t great. We were definitely eager to get home and get some pizza.
After dinner we waited until dark and I took Hope out to find another one of those huge crabs. We walked for a bit but Hope got bored before we found anything. She would not make a good hunter.
That was pretty much it for our last night. We cleaned up and watched a little more of a movie before going to bed.
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