Not my day

Took the bros to the doggie park today.  Laid my jacket down and another dog peed on it.

I came back to the boat, holding the jacket with two fingers away from me, and Kota missed the jump to the boat and fell in.  Took three of us to haul the wet sheltie back into the boat.  He is now drying off....

Partially-dried dog

Memo from Vero

Being in a marina full time is like living on a boardwalk.  You are glued to the lamest things.  Yesterday, we watched three guys put a motor on a dinghy hoping something dramatic would happen, took videos of a sailboat which had lost its steering and learned that Pete, the diver, found an overboard cell phone.  

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Latest photos...

 Moon over Atlantic

Bird on piling

Bird on beach sign

Bird breaking law

Bird silhouette 

Dog on boat

Boats in mooring field

Dinghy landing at dock

Dinghies landed at dock

Houses on Intracoastal Waterway

Balboita in slip

Indian River Queen at dock

 Fake locomotion

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Meanwhile....

Deer at Dreams Landing today (thanks, Nancy)

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Latest research....

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That's all, folks...

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He's back....

He swoops down on a piling right next to us and pretends he's just looking around.  But I know he has lyin' eyes.


 

Reader Karen ID-ed this guy as a Black-crowned Night Heron or, according to Erika, just a Night Heron.  A nature website says it's a stocky and compact heron which tucks its neck into its body creating a hunchback look.  Thus, the Bernie S. look-alike.  (I'm so bad.)

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Catfish sting (and bite)

Last week a young kayaker paddled into the marina asking the dock master to call an ambulance.  Seems he caught a catfish and it stung him, resulting in an anaphylaxis reaction.  He was wheeled down the dock on a gurney with IV and oxygen. 

So...........I thought I'd do a little research.

Catfish are nasty.  They get their name from the whiskers.  However, it's not the whiskers that sting.  It's the fins, or spines on his back, that do the damage if you grab it the wrong way, which can cause tissue necrosis and gangrene requiring amputation.  

Catfish can also bite, chomp down, and than go into an alligator roll, tearing your skin.  Notice the frequent use of the word "can."

A slightly sadistic, slightly funny short video of person getting bitten by catfish. Warning: adult language at the end.  (copy/paste)
  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZoQZWWwzLA

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Postcards...

Moored boat with warning, "do not raft up."  Who would want to?

Poodle on pedestal at marina

Florida strawberry.

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Plein Air at the Vero Marina...

Can you tell which boats she's painting?

Our kayak rack at the marina by Julie Grm of Vero

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More postcards...

What's Barry doing?  Hint:  it's not taking on fuel.

A noisy bar with a really bad band near the marina

Fundraiser for Vero's dog park.  Can you find the faces in the trees?

Stole this from Cruising Compass.  No place around here.
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And, finally to all the women out there beating a dead horse....

That's all folks....