Not a bad way to spend Christmas

We spent the day wandering about Fort Zachary Taylor and enjoying the cool breezes. I had hurt my knee so getting out into the water was heavenly, nice and cool.

Tim got his butt kicked on the beachcombing contest.

The spouse's new hero

Captain Jack.  Captain Jack set himself up a barge boat at the end of a deserted road (it's actually the access road to the Fat Albert facility), he has parking, no neighbors and a beautiful view.

Very nice man that chatted with a starry eyed Tim for awhile.  Did his place up nice.

The boat is anchored down by two large pylon type anchors in each corner.
The boat goes up and down them with the tide.

Lovely view he has.

His nearest neighbor, Fat Albert, is usually several thousand feet in the air.

Boatels

In the year and half since we have last been in our marina, it has turned into boatel central.  Every other boat seems to be for rent on vrbo.com or AirBnB.

The marina ain't to keen on it because if they find out that you are running a boatel, you get slapped with an additional $750/month fee.  And they need to approve how you portray the marina.

Tim and I personal don't like the fact that there is no control on who comes and goes from the marina, security-wise, not very good and one of the reasons we liked this marina was because of it's security, which seems to be a bit amiss at this point.

Interestingly enough, the majority users of the boatels are from Europe and Asia.  Multi-generations. What would be the thought process of dragging grandma halfway across the world and putting her up on a .... boat?  Interesting to think about.

Award point Christmas

After our feeding frenzy at the Annapolis boat show, all of our credit card award points have it our accounts.

And it's shopping time again!  Whoo-hoo.

Tim was able to get me on the Southwest companion pass for another year, we have one free companion flight on Delta in case we want to go directly into Key West.

I've just ordered (for pick up tomorrow at Best Buy) Google Chromecast that is supposed to work with our onboard TV and we'll be able to watch Netflix, HBO GO, etc etc etc from our iPads to the TV.  I'll report on that later.  (No, we don't go out and kill our livers every night, sometimes we just chill!)

Also got a few more ticky tack things that we've been wanting, not necessarily for the boat, but in general.

I think we did good on the bonus round of credit card spending!