We contacted our friends and we were going to meet them at Sombrero Reef around noon, which meant that we had to leave around 11. Their boat has twin 150’s so they could leave at 11:45!! We get to the reef and find a mooring ball, but we cannot find them, and it turns out we are at the south end and they are on the north. There is a mooring ball close to us so they agree to move, but no sooner had they moved, but here comes the “tour bus” with 50 people on it and takes the mooring ball. We try to raft up but with a sea of 1 to 2 feet, it makes it hard as our boats have different heights. Finally a mooring ball opens behind us and they grab that one. Small world story; we see a couple who were in our marina before heading to the Bahamas on one of the boats moored at the reef. He swims over and we chat and are going to get together for cocktails one night as they are here for another 6 weeks before heading north.
We get out on the reef, and it is a bit cloudy with the wave action, but there are fish everywhere including a 3 foot barracuda swimming near the bow of the boat. We get further inside the reef and the water is clearer. I snap several pictures of the coral and fish. There are a couple of grouper which would make a fine dinner, but the reef is a catch and release area. We swim back to the boat and rinse off. Our friends need a wrench to mount their grill to the rail (we have the same grill), so I lower the dingy and row it over. (It was easier than trying to put the engine on in 2 foot seas.) We sit and chat and they offer us some burgers, but we had lunch on the way out. We say our good byes as they are leaving Saturday, and motor back to our mooring ball. Showers feel great washing the salt off, and we have a late dinner salad.
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