Saturday, July 24, 2004

We all love sunsets

Let's lighten up a little, here.  You've seen sunsets over the Gulf.  This was taken from Uncle Mike's sailboat 'way out in the Gulf the weekend of the Fourth.  At sunset, most of our hot fishing was behind us but we didn't know it yet.  The full moon was about to rise in the East and we expected to haul in more grouper and mackerel, but the fishies were tucking themselves into bed.   They might have gotten hungry when the full moon was overhead but, by then, we'd tucked ourselves into bed too, or to be more accurate, stretched out on the benches in the cockpit area and nodded off.  The moonlight over the water around 4:00 a.m. was spectacular - visualize a billion diamonds on a dark carpet spread out to the horizon in all directions.  My camera was forward and my legs were too heavy to let me get up and go find it, but a photo wouldn't have done that scene justice.  So, this is all you get for scenics that night:   

                                  
    Sunset over the Gulf, 20 miles west of Naples, July 3, 2004 Posted by Hello


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