Lovely. Just lovely...

No, not me.  Stop, you're making me blush.  Today was an absolutely glorious day!

You might understand why I'm excited about this had you seen the weather forecast for the week: thunderstorms all week long.

Not even close today - the temp was in the low to mid-80s, very light east southeast breeze (less than 5 mph), and clear blue skies!  Yep, just lovely.

Joan went to the grocery store; when she got back, I had the boat ready.  Time to get out and enjoy this beautiful day...

Looking west as we exited our canal, we saw this...

A barge beached on our island.  Not that unusual - sometimes they do this while they wait for other traffic to clear.  We turned east instead, heading through our swing-bridge...

Out into the Laguna Madre...

South, then into the jetties area...

This is as pretty as we've seen the water this season - lovely color, nearly calm.  Well, until we got further out in the jetties... it went from flat to about a 2 foot swell.  Then, 3 foot.  Four.

I would not normally take this little pontoon out in "4 foot waves," but these were swells: like driving over small hills with plenty of room between them (the "period" for you seafaring folks).  Like riding a kiddie roller coaster.  Looking at the photo above, you can see the line between the aqua color in the Laguna, and the deeper blue-green in the Gulf.  This is as far out as we've taken the pontoon (used to spend a lot of time out in the Gulf with the Corsair trimaran) - coming back, I took a photo of the chartplotter...

Really, we were further out than that.

Coming back in the ship channel, we looked around for dorsal fins.  Nope.  This shrimper went by...

As the shrimper passed by us, I saw one lone dolphin playing in his bow wave.  No, we didn't chase after him.  You'll have to trust me on that, too.  By this point, I was on a mission: it was approaching 3:00 and my belly was telling me it was time for lunch.  Past time.

BurgerFi had some burgers with our names on 'em.

I rinsed the boat, and we headed for the burgers.  Well, with a 15 minute pause at our swing-bridge since it had opened for a passing double barge.

The burgers were especially good.  After chow, we took a drive by the beach... the Tuesday after a holiday weekend, it was not crowded.  Plenty of folks playing in the water.

Back home, little Izzy was ready for her supper.  Then after, some couch time...

Yeah.  Lovely.

:-)