Dawn on Saturday, May 10

Today we went back to the Washing Machine at 1500 with the two families in the northern anchorage. Yesterday, we were so fixated on all the turtles at the mouth of the northern anchorage that we didn’t take one of the mouth itself.

We again saw several turtles at the mouth and a couple of turtles in the saltwater rivers. When we arrived at the ocean, the tide was going in, so it was sucking people from the ocean into the salt river. Just as the sandbar had stopped people from getting sucked out too far into the ocean, a sandbar stopped people from getting too deep into the river. Here is a video Christi took from the sandbar of some people floating in. At the end of this clip, she’d hopped in, but the rest of the video of her riding the current in didn’t come out.

Here was Eric floating down. Keith swam out to intercept Eric.

While it was fun both directions, we all agreed it was more fun to ride out into the ocean than into the river, especially when jumping off the rock.

Here we were in the river, on our way back to Kosmos

In the evening, one of the boats invited the children over for a movie night. They said giving parents time alone was their Mother’s Day gift to the other boats. 😉 This was the sunset.

The nearly full moon shone brightly in the twilight.