Raining

 12/28- It was raining when we got up this morning so we decided to stay put another day. It rained until around noon or so and then we took a nice walk. There is a trail that goes through what must pass for a forest around here. We saw lots of unusual plants but no alligators or snakes. I did a bunch of boat projects and we just chilled. 

    The tides around here are weird. The tide here at the marina is  a whopping 18 inches. It’s hard to even tell when it’s high or low. Back in St Augustine the tide range was 5 feet. How do you go from a 5 foot tide to a foot and a half tide in 25 miles? The thing of it is these are all rivers running parallel to the ocean. What is interesting is that there is still considerable current. We came down here at almost 8 knots while the engine was only turning 1k rpm’s. I was trying to slow down but nothing doing. Where does that much current come from with only 1 1/2 feet of tide. 

    The skies cleared nicely for the 8:07 launch of the rocket from SpaceX. It was cool you could see the flames coming out the back and we saw the 2 boosters separate and fall back to the ground. The main payload went up through the atmosphere with a cool aura around it. There is another launch tonight at 11:00. I’m not sure I’ll see that one. 

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