Peggy is Queen... Of the flies

Peggy is Queen of the Flies. Mike and Terry are Lords of the Slime.  Well, here we are in the ICW just past Red 12 headed toward Georgetown. As you might guess, we are having engine problems. Mike and Terry have totally drained the port tank. However, they could not get a good look inside because the tank had baffles. Mike did find slime below. They did get the fuel gauges calibrated. They have spent the afternoon down in the engines. They installed a new fuel pump in the port engine, but now it doesn't have any fuel. So, we will have to wait until tomorrow, when we can get fuel in Georgetown. Meanwhile, Peggy has become Queen of the Flies. Finally, the bugs Mike promised me I would find in the ICW have arrived. The horseflies are as big as horses. And, there is a continual stream of them. Peggy has spent her afternoon chasing them with the flyswatter. I think she might really be slipping a little. She keeps talking to the flies. And, she is so very proud of her fly killing technique. She swishes them down the screen, and then she squashes them. She keeps yelling, "Swish! Squash!" Carol can't resist playing with the genoa. She unfurls it. She furls it. And, the flies just keep coming. The big news is that it is NOT raining. I know that everyone reading this is surprised. Usually, we don't do engine repair without rain. I actually forgot the big story of the morning. We kissed a bridge. When the ICW says the bridge is only 65 feet, they mean that would be at low tide. When the marker on the side says it is only at 63 feet, they do mean that. So, the antenna scraped. Mike carefully shepherded LUX under the bridge slowly but surely. He did a great job. The other news for the day is that Mike saw two alligators. One was just the head- it was floating along, and it submerged right when Mike yelled, "Look! There' an alligator." This, of course, led to speculation that he just made it up. The second one was actually on land. It, according to Mike, jumped off the bank into the water. Carol is now claiming that she saw them,too. So, we'll have to add alligators to our list of animals seen in our travels. By the way, it is now 7:30, and we have arrived in Georgetown. We had a salad with chicken for dinner. Our plans are to go into town for dessert and drinks! For Jacob, that would be a soda, naturally.