Wind-down Wednesday

 

Haze, 70° 96%, Wednesday, 29 Dec 2021, my kind of Florida Gulf Coast winter morning, though wondering whether this is an anomaly or signifies climate change. Childhood memories include being outside in the back yard barefoot and shirtless in short pants on Christmas Eve and it seemed normal, no climate change panic in those days. 

Pic above, yesterday morning just off 7H, ship leaving with wood pellets to fire the converted power plant at Studstrup, Denmark, ship arriving to load wood pellets for Studstrup. On the chart, we in 7H are at the center right where a marina pier sticks out into the Bay and the print reads "Bue" for Buena Vista Point. One Saturday or Sunday afternoon five or six years ago we watched as an outbound ship ran aground, as I recall in a ships meeting situation like yesterday's picture, and churned up quite a cloud of foam, bubbles and mud with reversed engines and propellers revved up trying to back off. 

Don't know about merchant ship masters and civilian harbor pilots being fined, suspended or fired, but in the Navy, running your ship aground would not be a good way to get your next stripe.

That's enough for this morning. Linda's thawing grouper for dinner at noon, and I may cut myself a square of my oyster dressing.

Up and alert. Early: mug of hot and black and a sizable square of Christmas gift dark chocolate.

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