Another rain splatter this morning; shorter and less
intense than yesterday's. Very hot and
still; we will be going ashore with the day tent and food supplies to explore,
swim, snorkel, and take photos. Looking
over the side of the boat this morning, we noticed tiny fish swimming in large
school glittlering like diamonds under the water. At their head was a fish leading the way and
drawing a wake, kind of like a waterbug might make as it skates across the film
of water.
I made pickled eggs yesterday; finished off some
pickled beets and had all that good juice left over, so I boiled up some eggs
and then plopped them in the jar to soak up that briny goodness. Ate one at breakfast this morning; very good.
We are all reading maniacs this week; we've all had
a hard time pulling ourselves away from our respective novels. I just finished a book call Sugar Cage by
Connie May Fowler, an older book, but a good one about spirits and hoodoo,
which I love. Gary's reading the
successor to Gorky Park, and Elliott is reading the Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card. I've just started African Queen, which I did not know was written by the
author of the Horatio Hornblower series.
The language is definitely dated, but I'm reading it slowly but surely. Love the character development and relationship discussions.
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