Two signs here...one advertising the Friday night fireworks, and the other for our favorite Sushi restaurant wich I mentioned in the previous post. I couldnt find the photo yesterday, so here it is.
One thing that interests us....most sushi restaurants also serve 'Asian' or 'Chinese' food alongside. Along with the tempura, which came Bento style, there were two pieces of california roll and a good two scoops of Chinese vegetable Fried Rice, with the usual ginger and wasabi.
Just past Ichibon, on the left, is the Kemah lighthouse. I think it used to work, and I doubt if it is just for decoration, but cant be sure in this place:)
Here is another lighthouse attached to a home on the water.This home had lots of fun wind whirlies in the yard and you can just see some of them on the deck going out to the lighthouse.
Perhaps this is a better photo, close-up?
And from Lighthouses to Lotus Flowers:)
Our next door neighbor drives this lovely older Lotus.
He has rebuilt his huge catamaran which has six staterooms, but we have never seen him take it out, and according to the marina staff, they dont remember when he last took his boat out of the marina.
We were TOLD by the day security guy that we should put our dinghy somewhere it wasnt obstructing these large vessels from getting out of the narrow channel where we are docked. Having been here for three weeks with the dinghy exactly where she is, on the back of the boat, we wonder if has nothing better to do. The beautiful Lazzara 70ft motoryacht we look out on has yet to move from her dock also, so I dont think we, or they, are in any trouble. Yes, the channel is narrow, and we had to manoevre carefully coming into the dock, but any captain worth his salt should be able to get through the channel, no problems.
We find that many of the boat users here dont really know what they are doing with their boats. Some of the manoevres we have observed are mind boggling.
We are surrounded predominently by yachts. We have observed only one other live-aboard in our channel, and cant fathom why they would want to live on a yacht that has no windows to the outside world??
Wednesday is racing day for many of the little 25fters. As there is no slip here, there is a crane that lifts the boats off their cradles into the water...well, you couldnt slip a keel into the water. The public boat ramps are next door beside the Outrigger restaurant.
The parking lot fills up around 5.15pm with those who race, and most of them are back in the marina by 7.30pm. A small john Deer tractor is kept busy trailering the yachts back to their positions on the hard, opposite us. This marina employee starts putting the yachts in the water just after lunch, ready for those who sail to just hop aboard. I think they belong to the Carefree Boating Club, which is housed on marina grounds.
On our evening walk last night, we observed that there were a sprinkling of lights coming from yachts in other parts of the marina, indicating live-aboards. We are surprised there are so few.
It was glorious, last night...the recent rain has really cleared the air so that the stars were very much in evidence alongside the thin slice of moon that rose, and then all but disappeared. There were very few boats on the creek leading from the Bay into Clear Lake, which meant little noise, and you could hear all the bird calls. There was also very little traffic coming and going over the bridge, so that a pleasant calm existed.
We get a real kick out of standing on the bridge that joins two parts of the marina (to an island), and watching the night fishing, both human and bird...and last night a large muskrat swam right underneath us. Warren is kicking himself that he didnt get his cellphone out to photograph it. The bridge is only about a meter off the water!
We really need a tripod to photograph these birds...we left two tripods at home because of their weight and only two bag allowance on the airlines!...which should be relatively easy given that they stay still for ages when stalking their fish.
Some of the big fish stir up the mud along the bank and the birds take advantage of the escapees. Mother nature at her best:)
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