We had a busy day today, but it’s raining now – it’s been raining a lot the last ten days. So let me catch up a little.
Jet skis – I hate ‘em . . . but I love ‘em. Sorry, I’m a hypocrite as regards jet skis. The girls took one and Josh and I had one each. I have a go-to jet ski guy, Robin. But Robin was out of ‘sea bikes’. He wanted us to wait for 30 minutes, but it looked like rain, so I told him we were going to go to someone else because we wanted to go right away. He tried to talk us into waiting, but when we said no, he arranged for three bikes with his buddy. I always pay $1 per minutes from Robin. So we took off for 40 minutes. We jetted from Sun Beach to the Blue Cave Castle, then scooted across Long Bay all the way to Bobby Cay. Then a quick look into Bloody Bay and then slowly back along the shoreline to Sun Beach. Thirty-six minutes.
When we got back the guys who we had rented the bikes from were arguing with Robin. The air was thick with ‘Klaats’. Apparently they were not happy with the $1 per minute deal he had made with us. We walked away and let them settle it.
Here’s a shot of Robin and LuLu (her beach name).
Later we headed up to Canoe for dinner. We taxied it up to the traffic circle and then set out walking the rest of the way. As we were passing HiLo a car pulled up beside us and J.T. popped out wearing just his black shorts and holding his trademark red solo cup (Appleton and Pepsi).
At Canoe, the waitress made J.T. put on his t-shirt. During dinner J.T. told me that he had bumped into this dude, let’s call him ‘GulfShores’, that J.T. has absolutely no time for – to put it mildly. He said he was sitting at the bar when ‘GulfShores’ walked up to him and said ‘Hi’. It was the first time they had met this reach. GulShores, who can’t stand cigarettes, noticed that J.T. was smoking and said, “So, you’re still smoking.”
J.T. – who can’t stand GulfShores, pointed at his beer belly and replied, “And you’re still fat!”
Here’s a shot of J.T. on our snorkel cruise.
At Canoe, Bea and I had lionfish, which was good. The kids and J.T. had burgers in coco bread. The burgers were so huge that they couldn’t finish them – a hungry dog that was hovering around on the beach benefitted from the leftovers.
Later we walked to Swordfish and had cake. We took in the view from the bar deck – there is a very nice view of the beach from there.
Our party is shrinking. Shrek and his S.O. have left us. Many have come and many have gone. Things are starting to quiet down.
