Monday August 21, 2017 - Happy Solar Eclipse Day

Full cloud cover this morning in the Broughton's. I spent the morning in the Happy Hour tent trying to get the marina WiFi to be nice to me, but it took a lot of work. Greg went back and forth from the tent doing the laundry and connecting to the internet, while I looked after the dog and did *not* connect to the internet. Byron and I spent the morning unplugging and plugging in the repeater that was there and that would often, but not always help. Eventually, after a couple of hours, I was through all the email and support requests and was done.

We had lunch, and then Byron and Greg took the dinghy out to go fishing. The fish are in theory running out by James Point and the place was filled with fish boats as we passed on the way in. They returned just before the Boaters net Ham Radio call, but had no joy. The afternoon on Spellbound cleared up and there was some blue sky and it got warmer. I did some reading and some Blog updates.

After much cleanup, we had a mini happy hour on Spellbound before heading off to dinner at 6:15. Chris made Indonesian rice and Asian prawns for dinner, and we even had cake for dessert. They served beer and wine with dinner, however, remind me not to have the house red again.

We went for a walk and ended up spending some time talking to Gary and Ginger from "LivLife". It turns out that he is Canadian and has also lived all across the country. Then we walked out to the "golf course" and Byron tried his hand at getting onto the platform. It is a hell of a long way out there and he had to whack the golf ball hard to get anywhere near it. His last one was quite close, but no free moorage. (Also, you need to do it while someone watches anyway). Back to EG to look at Sue's "critter pictures" slide show.



If you stay 2 nights at Sullivan, you get free moorage for your 3rd night. Since the weather is supposed to be good, we decided to stay for the free night so that Byron and Greg could go out fishing again. The opportunity is available and it doesn't cost us anything, so we might as well take advantage of it. Chris tells us to "fish the flood", go down to around 70 or 80 feet, and the hot colors right now are red and copper. OK. And he says Cody is going out on a charter in the morning so just follow "Wizard" around out there. OK Check.