Monday, November 28, 2016

Monday Evening
November 29th, 2016

So, after a hard day of shelling I thought I'd have a drink with my Potato Packers, steaks on the side...
What's this....a big pair of nostrils...

Hey, it's Mavis the Manatee...

Swimming around our boat during Cocktail Hour...

Looks like propeller marks on the manatee's back...

Here the manatee is trying to untie our anchor line... 

Stop that Mavis...


Ouch...

Looks like Mavis caught one across the left eye...


Elwood was very interested...

Time to pet Mavis the Manatee... 

Kind of sponge like skin...

You just shake your hand in the water and over Mavis came...

What a great visitor!!!

Monday
November 28th, 2016

Our day of fishing on the Gulf yielded nothing....

I put on a slide diver and let out a little too much line and caught the bottom...
We put the engine in neutral, Joell pulled in the two other lines and turned the boat around and we were able to get it to release without issue...

Even though we hooked the bottom the Penn reel preformed great..

Yet another boat sunk just off of the ICW

Our anchorage for one evening at Stump Pass with three other boats..

This was the coolest swing bridge....We didn't have to wait with our antennas down...

Pelicans we scared up with the dinghy...

This is an Osprey nest...

up close... the Osprey comes and goes...mostly goes...

Our anchorage in Pelican Bay, near Cayo Costa State Park, last evening and tonight...  super secluded...

We named this sandbar "shell beach"....

Shells, shells and more shells...


This is "Shell Beach".... just before Elwood found a dead fish and rolled in it...
He got a bath when we got back to the boat...



Had to have a Miller while walking on the beach...

Our small collection from the day...

After we got back to the boat we decided to do a little fishing in the cove we were anchored in...
This is a Pompano with the yellow fins....

And this fishie is a Mutton Snapper (we think....)
or some other type of bait fish (which he'll be tonight after the sun goes down...