Mike got up at 7:00 AM, EDT, and started working on our small generator, Tink. The generator needed his fuel filters changed. Since I am allergic to diesel fuel, Mike does the filter changes; of course this means I do the heads when they need work.
I woke up at 8:00 AM, EDT and immediately fixed breakfast. During the Cruisheimers net, I discovered that Mike on Sweet Dreams is currently in the town of St. Mary's, approximately 2 miles up river. He decided to put his dinghy in the water and go wandering around and come visit us, among others. Not to be outdone, Mike relented and we put our dinghy in the water as well.
We then focused on cleaning up the boat from the offshore passage. It seems that everything gets pulled out on a passage, and rarely gets put away. The next thing we know, it is noon! We called it a day, had a quick lunch and then set out on our dinghy to meet Mike. We made it about 100 yards from the boat when we saw him tooling up in his dinghy.
We stopped in the middle of the river (out of the channel), chatted for a bit before heading back to Nightwinds, where we chatted some more. He is quite an entertaining fellow, being a single hander and all. This isn't something either one of us would want to do! Around 2:00 PM, he headed for home, and we took a tour of the anchorage.
We noticed that a new boat had come in, and since we were expecting Timonee, we decided to take a closer look. It was, so we headed over to introduce ourselves, in person this time. We only meant to stay a minute, then let them recover from their trip. I think we wound up gabbing for about 20 minutes or so. It was kind of like we knew them already. It is amazing how fast bonds form when you are the only 2 voices in the dark at sea. We have met a lot of boats this way and it is always the same.
After that, we headed up into the Tiger River (ala marsh) to look around a bit, then back to the boat. We flipped on the TV and found every cooking show on to be quite fascinating. It was definitely time for dinner!
Mike made killer enchiladas, and then we watched Galaxy Quest. Finally, we did the nightly ritual of partially raising the dinghy to keep the bottom from getting fouled.