The Keys, Day Two
Let’s sleep late. Tired and hung over not from drinking but from nearth death experiences with the sea. It’s a strange and powerful force not to be reckoned with. But we managed to drag ourselves out of bed to the beautiful views of green plam on blue water. Spent the morning cleaning the boat of hazadous salt water and laying by the pool. Dropped the jet ski into the water later and took turns running it around the bay harassing the locals. We also managed to find water skis, a wakeboard, and a kneeboard. Towed each other around on that for awhilie, entirely too much fun. Matt’s also got a navy seal style zodiac boat, so we decided to take the snorkels and the wieght belts and look for lobster about 5 miles out into the open ocean. It was a pretty solid effort considering how rough the seas were today, but alas the bottom was too murky and we couldn’t get at the little bastards today 
Les, is an eccentric fellow from cleveland who lives next door to Matt. You know the type of guy. Loves to fish, comes to florida every month or so. Also loves to live vicariously through a bunch of college guys next door. He informed us that his buddy down the way has 6 college girls in town for spring break and that if we’d help him move a 400 pound table, he’d send them over. So we happily oblidged. Thinking that they probably wouldn’t show anyway, we decided to take the zodiac and a cooler full of corona out to a sandbar quite a ways off shore and hang out while the sun was still out. It was one of the most amazing things I think I have ever done. Powder white sand, emerald water, yellow corona, and all of us just sitting in 6 inches of water and enjoying the good life. Dare I say incredible again? We had no cameras with us, so that one will have to stay lodged in memory, but good times and good friends will never be forgotten.
So, upon our return we learn that the girls did in fact stop by and may be back later. Sweet. We put together all of our fish and began to cut up some sushi fillets for dinner. You really can’t get much more fresh than catching it and filleting it yourself. I will have to say that it was argueably the best sushi that I have ever eaten. We deep fried all of our snapper, made hush puppies and ate it out on the patio, listening to Buffett and the Beach Boys. All topped off with two key lime pies
To cap the night the girls ended up coming over so we fired up the power on the boat, turned on the “hi-fi” and decided to put a line out the back and try to catch a shark. You basically do this by dumping a bunch of blood in the water, throwing a dead fish out on a really big hook made of titanium and hope that they smell the blood, come into the bay and damn near rip the rod into the water. So, after a couple hours of partying the line on the rod goes ripping out into the bay, and everyone is clamering to get a look and get into the zodiac to chase the thing out into the bay. Matt gets on the road, and the other Matt is driving, with Mike videoing. And, literally after a 2 hour fight with it, Matt brings it into the bay by the boat for us to see a 10 foot 150 pound bull shark. One of the coolest thing I have ever seen up close. More pictures to come on the website. I’ll keep you guys posted after we get on the cruise tomorrow Jigga!
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