Sea Scouts Summer Trip: Day 3

This day began early. Edon, Theo, and I woke up at 4am to begin our watch. Despite some light cloud cover, there were still many stars visible. I could even see the Milky Way. Within the first few minutes of gazing upward, a bright shooting star shot past. I may have seen two dimmer ones as well, but I can’t be sure. The 4 am watch isn’t bad because you get uninterrupted (theoretically) sleep leading up to it and then you get to see the night sky followed by a sunrise during the shift.
After changing out of my pajamas, I continued watching the stars and then worked on yesterday’s blog.
The plan for the day is to leave at 7am and head straight to Marathon Key. Ideally, we will arrive at a marina there around 4pm. There will be real showers and toilets and everyone is looking forward to a watch-free night of sleep, since the boat will be in a slip at the marina.
We actually arrived much earlier than anticipated and spent time refueling the boat and emptying the waste holding tanks before moving into our slip. Edon did an amazing job pulling the boat up to the fueling station and then into our slip. After that, Edon refilled the water tanks while everyone else went swimming at the marina pool.
After showers most of us walked down the busy highway toward a restaurant Nick wanted to eat at that has sushi. The wait was long for a table, 45 minutes to an hour. While waiting we walked a bit further down the highway checking things out. While exploring we came across couple of hotels, several trailer parks, restaurants, and chickens. We headed back to the restaurant only to find the wait time had been way underestimated.
Around 8:20pm I had to head back to the marina to start laundry. Everyone was still waiting to be seated when I left. Apparently the host forgot about them and it wasn't until 8:35pm that they settled on taking a table in muggy humid outdoors so they could finally eat.
This was mostly a travel day, and tomorrow we start heading back. Charlotte has plans for stops every couple of hours to go snorkeling. I am definitely looking forward to that, despite my leaky mask.