So my first night on the boat was a little rough, both literally and figuratively.  The boat rocks a little more than we thought it would leading to every wooden door and cabinet rattling around obnoxiously.  I was also probably overly paranoid and just laid there listening to every noise the boat made all night long.  I woke up having gotten 1 hour and 9 minutes of sleep according to my Fitbit. Great. Luckily there was coffee available to fix the shitty mood I was in.

In addition to being ridiculously picturesque, Watmough Bay is also at the base of one of the larger mountains In the islands.  There is apparently a hike all the way to the top and that was our task for the day. We took the parents with us otherwise they would literally be trapped on the boat and somehow managed to talk them into going on the hike to the summit with us.  Fun fact: this is not an easy hike as we found out halfway through.  The second half of the hike was spent scrambling alongside cliff faces while clinging precariously to tree roots and rocks.  I’m sure this is exactly what my mother pictures herself doing on this fine Saturday morning.  Fortunately for everyone, the reward was actually worth the effort and offered up views of the other islands, open water, and our boat down below in the bay.

Another totally random thing that happened on this trip so far is that last night while Jason couldn’t sleep he went outside to check the boat and realized that the water was bioluminescent.  We’ve experienced this one other time while coming back from a late night fishing run and the entire wake of the boat was lit up bright blue.  Since we’re in a slow boat at anchor in our pajamas we just grabbed the boat hook and stirred the water around.  It really is just a faint blue glow in the water with occasional sparkles. Super duper freaking neat. It was hard to get a picture of since it was pitch black outside and the camera couldn’t focus on anything, but here’s my best attempt!