Friday, February 22, 2008

Day 76 - 20 February



Flowers from Judy and Lucie! While walking along the waterfront in Lake Worth, Judy and Lucie brought back some flowers they found growing wild along the way. the bud was tightly closed when we received them, but opened up into the glorious display on the photograph at right. Sadly, they didn't survive the ocean off Key Biscayne and had to be discarded when we arrived at the Miami Marine Stadium anchorage. Fortunately for us there were two other natural spectacles for us to enjoy after we arrived at anchor.

The first was watching the sun set at Lake Worth South. Each anchorage has at least this one even in common. The sun sets and rises at each one and the natural spectacle is always a wondrous demonstration of a simple event that is always impressive and humbling to witness. The second event was a total lunar eclipse that was observable from the anchorage. The event began promptly at 8:45PM and continued on until after midnight when the moon's disk was finally full and shining again.

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