A Rough Day On The Water

We woke up about 3:30 AM with rough waves and wind blowing through the harbor.  I managed to get back to sleep but Captain got up around 4:30 to check on things.   After letting me doze for a while, waking up off and on, Captain woke me at 6:00 and asked if I wanted to get going soon. I was surprised, as we usually take out time, enjoy a nice breakfast at the mooring and listen to the radio.  But he has listening to the weather report and thunderstorms were predicted.  I quickly hopped out of bed and put on some clothes and a hat and helped get us underway.  I also made sure that I put on my Sea Bands and pop a motion sickness pill.  It was going to be a rough 6 hour trip home.

The ocean was very very choppy and the swells were 5-10'.  It's always the swells that get me.  While I didn't get sick, I certainly needed to keep my eyes on the horizon and not watch the boat bob up and down the swells.  I needed fresh air too as the diesel engine lets off a few fumes.

I did manage to snap a few pictures as we left the harbor.  I only have 3 pictures here as I couldn't take anymore after this!    At the end of the post, you will see a video that Captain took, this will give you an idea of the conditions we were sailing in.

We don't normally sail with our life jackets, but today we did!

There was some rain and we saw a rainbow!

This is a video I took, you can see the choppy-ness of the water and a storm off in the distance.

This is a short video that Captain took.  It shows the swells the best.

My Favorite Time

My favorite time of day is at the end.   When it gets all quiet and everyone is coming back from their daily fun and getting all ready for dinner.  The sun starts to set and you feel good about all the "stuff" you got done during the day.  I love the sky as the sun starts to set, the water starts to calm down and everything becomes peaceful.

Sebasco ~ By Land

Captain bought us some fold up bikes for Christmas last year and we brought them along with us to take ashore at Sebasco. What fun we had biking around the resort! We simply used the launch service to take us and our bikes to land.  Here are some pictures when we were biking around.

Sebasco ~ A The Mooring

Fun at the morring...fishing, reading books, relaxing...Captain took the new dingy for a spin. 

The person next to us even brought their on Paddle Surf board and paddled around the harbor.

And we made ice cream for desert!  My mom gave us a very cool ice cream "ball" last year.  You simply fill one end with ice and rock salt, the other with the ice cream mixture.  I premade the ice cream mixture at home, so the flavors could all come together and I had only one container to bring with me instead of many different ingredients.  We deiced to made banana chocolate chip ice cream.  Soo simple!   Once you add the ice and the ice cream mixture you just shake, shake, shake for about 20 minutes and you then have ice cream!  It is soft and a bit melty, but that is just how I love my ice cream anyway!

Yum!

Sailing To Sebasco Harbor

We head out to Sebasco at least once a summer.  We love the old fashioned feel of the resort.  Our sail out to Sebasco was delightful!  We saw several dolphin and enjoyed a nice even sail.    We were sure to make reservations and I was able to pick up the mooring on the first try (I can't remember the last time I missed, I am very proud of that).    Here are some pictures from our sail over to Sebasco, which takes us about 6 hours.

Message In A Bottle

We were sailing last week (more on that in a bit) and threw a simple message in a bottle in the ocean.  Using one of Captains empty Beefeater Gin bottles, I wrote a little note telling of our location and our email address and tucked it into the bottle.  Hoping that it will make it around the world and we hear back from someone!