November 6 Beach, Full Moon, and of course never ending boat maintenance

Didn't want to drive too far so we opted for Shallow Beach today. Forgot that with the full moon the tides would be higher and lower than usual. Pity I didn't get a picture of low tide at this beach, had to walk half a mile to get to water deep enough to sit in. Won't make that mistake again.

Found a few shells and this creature in a pool of water:

Picture doesn't do it justice - the flora growing on it is deep mossy green

A conch alive and well and pretty mad that we were messing with it. I'm not sure that all that growth on it is usual. I think it's in disguise.

Tucked in

Untucked and mad

 In this video Chris was trying to get a picture not realizing that the video was on. A happy mistake.

 Watch closely, who knew these creatures could flip over so fast.

The boat builders in their infinite wisdom drained the anchor locker into the bilge so when it rains all the water runs off the front deck into the locker and then into the bilge and then the bilge pump has to run. This is the pump that now must be switched on manually until we replace the switch. Gerry (and a wee bit of help from Chris and I) decided to reroute the hose and now the water goes right out through this lovely new thru hull.

Wonder how long it will take to grow back.

Got around to cutting the bushes down that were giving the rats easy access. Gerry did the cutting, Chris and I the removing. Betty claims we were messing with poison wood but we didn't get a rash.

Why is he wearing his good clothes?

And here is the cause of the tides. Some days I wish I had a better camera. Why aren't Steve and Anita here with theirs?