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Saturday, June 19, 2004 ( 9:44 PM ) Lostcheerio Today we took the boat out. If you know the Chesapeake Bay around Lynnhaven inlet, we went out to the Black Can area and then out the Northeast inbound/outbound channel following a Navy ship and a sailboat who were way ahead of us. We went out until we couldn't see any more land. IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! We had so much fun, it was fantastic. Benny and Sadie, and I am not even kidding, slept in the cabin for like two hours. The sea was PERFECT just the right amount of rocking and rolling and not too bumpy -- they slept like little angels right next to each other and Dan and I actually had a conversation in the middle of the day which never happens, we never talk until we are too tired to think let alone actually have and communicate ideas. Dan saw one of these today!!!!  A Cownose Ray was swimming right beside the boat. It was on his side, and although he circled back and looked, we couldn't find it again. Pretty cool though!!! He said it was huge and looked like a giant board. Apparently the rays are breeding right now. Another exciting moment was when we saw a buoy about the size of a large coffee can go zooming through the water!!! CRAZY!!! It must have been attached to a sporting fish of rather considerable size who had been harpooned with it (like in Jaws when they harpoon the barrels to the shark) and then had gotten away from the fisherman. The buoy was moving really fast -- it was sending out a little wake! It was very tempting to try and grab it and pull up whatever was on the end of it -- maybe a marlin or swordfish or whatever, but recently a guy in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, saw a THREE THOUSAND POUND GREAT WHITE SHARK and even though this couldn't possibly have been it, he said it was swimming north, and you can never be too careful! Last time we went out, I forgot to mention, we saw some boards floating in the water right around the Cape Henry lighthouse... we had to go back to get my hat which had fallen in the water (whee) and there were these old boards. Well, whatever, right? Turns out there is a sunken wreck right around there that they are planning to drag up and get rid of because it's starting to break up and get in the way of boat traffic! MEANING US. Whee indeed. Final interesting thing: There are these yellow buoys in the middle of that in/out channel we were riding around on today. They are audible buoys as well as lights. Which means there are these big metallic bongers and gongs on them... it was AMAZING hearing those bells. The slap, slap of the water and the clanging of those buoys -- was very beautiful. The first one out had 3 different tones, the second had one and the third had two. I wondered if they did that on purpose. I imagine in the dark with no wind and quiet seas that sound is extremely haunting. It was really cool! Today was my first time in a boat being out far enough where I couldn't see land. I didn't fall from the crow's nest into the sea, but I did have a bit of a Melville moment. I need to reread Moby Dick, again. IT IS SO RELEVANT, PEOPLE. WHY YOU CAN'T SEE THAT IS BEYOND ME. Yes I am going to read "The Masthead." Meditation and water are wedded forever. #
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