ANEMOMETER, MANATEES IN SUNNY 82 DEGREES

Since it's blowing heavy east winds, and we are without an anemometer, I recommend to anyone in stormy country to order one of these that attach to a smart phone. The app gives wind speed and direction.  Sort of fun to see. (about $35)  You can see the wind speed anywhere.

http://www.weatherflow.com/a-wind-meter-for-your-smart-phone/

 It works well and easily.  It's blowing up to 23 MPH so lumpy for us.
Here's the water at the dinghy dock:

Yet we suit up in yellow bib weather overalls and rain jackets to withstand waves washing over the dinghy as we motor against these waves.   Mazu wears a large black garbage bag with a hole for her head:

It may not look like much, but we're rocking on the boat like babies in a kicked cradle.

Mating manatees, at least that's what everyone said because the usual slug-like animals were swimming around and stirring up the mud.  They swim underwater most of the time.  Signs on the dock instruct all dinghies and boats to go very slowly.

Yesterday, Sunday (a rainy, cloudy day) we stumbled onto another art/food festival in Coral Gables as we were trying to visit Verizon and activate Drew's new iphone6.  [Verizon was too crowded and they wouldn't take the hours it takes to transfer data to the new phone so we had to come back the next day.]
Great food.

You can see me taking the picture in the reflection.  Thought of you, Sarah and Yeang, our scuba divers.
After trudging through the crowds, at the end of the day, before our wet dinghy ride back to the boat, we stopped for the usual island walk/jog and Mazu did her happy dance.(She has her life jacket on.)

Drew also received a new computer today so he'll be transferring data and updating files - a time sink.  Gives me time to read:  Presently reading The Sixth Extinction, An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (excellent writer.)