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Monday, July 24th
By 7:00 am, several of the
Scouts were awake up on deck and were clomping around.
The captain comes out of his cabin, and boy, was he upset.
Uh oh, they woke him up before 7:30!
Bad news, and he told us all about it.
After breakfast, we cleared the
decks to get ready to enter the harbor.
All the clothes and towels came off the lifelines and
everything was straightened up. At
9:15, we headed into The Galleon
Marina and entered our slip at 9:40 with
everyone standing at his assigned positions.
As soon as the boat is secured, Captain Harman puts us to work
swabbing the decks. Here’s
where we got to pay for waking him up. We finally got the boat clean (first into harbor, last to
leave our boat) and Capt. released us.
First stop was the marina’s
fresh water pool! It’s
amazing how soothing fresh water is after being in the ocean a couple
of days. Since there are
only three showers for the crews of three boats (that’s 24 people
total), we take turns going in and Mark, Blake and Chris get clean
first. Paco, BA and David
go next and then the adults, last as usual.
We all agree to meet at the marina’s Tiki bar once we’re
cleaned up.
One of the adults big concerns
is whether or not to let the boys travel around Key West without adult
supervision, so we talked about it with every Sea Base representative
there and other adults from the other boats.
The general consensus was that it was perfectly safe, as long
as the boys followed the buddy system and checked in once in a while
during the day, that Key West was small and easy to get around in and
didn’t pose any problems for the Scouts until well after 10 pm, when
they had to be back on the boats.
As a result, after meeting at
the Tiki bar, the Scouts took off in two groups of three: Mark, Blake
and Chris in one; David, Paco and BA in the other; and the adults were
on their own. We agreed
to meet at Burger King for lunch (it’s in a great central location)
and afterward, we all went to Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Museum
(fun). After the museum,
we walked around shopping as a group and visited Margaritaville
before we broke up into groups again.
After another scheduled regrouping at 4pm, and more shopping in
groups, we all met at the Hard Rock
Café for dinner at 6 pm (the
service took forever, service was poor, it was too loud, the Scouts
did not get a discount, but the food was good).
After
dinner, some Scouts went to the Sunset Festival (basically a market
bazaar), and some went back to the boat.
Everyone was back at the boat by 9:15 and we sat around
comparing notes about our day in town. Some decided to walk around the docks and look at the yachts,
while a couple others decided to take a quick shower before bed.
Lights were out at 10 pm, but it took a while for most to get
to sleep because of the noise, commotion and lights in the marina.
NEXT: Day 8
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