Sunset Dinner

Tuesday January 31, 2001

 

Can you see the sunset in a mangrove?

 

I want to try to find this out. 
So we figure out where is West
and set off with our beach cart
to take chairs and our dinner for a sunset picnic.

 

We get there just in time. 
About 6:00. 
We set up our chairs right on the water.

 

David dishes out the meal into
our “chili cook off” trays with multiple compartments
to keep the chili entries separate. :-)

 

This is not a picnic with sandwiches

or cold barbequed chicken.
This is a hot dinner.

 

The show begins and it is a beauty

 

 

 

What was that?

Dinner finished, we are relaxing
enjoying the fading light
when off to my left in the mangrove,
say 15 feet away,
comes a growling noise
and then some big time rustling about.

What was that?

Feral hogs?

raccoons?

Bigger Growling Noise
sounds like a fight going on.

We decide that
given
we are the only folks out here
this thing seems pretty big
and pretty serious

we probably don’t want to get involved.

So we quickly pack up food, chairs,
binoculars, cameras,
put them in the cart and pedal on our way.
Leaving the participants to their evening show.

The following day we mention this to Gin & Syl.
They mention it to their neighbor the campground host
who says “ well we haven’t had any hogs for a few years
and raccoons don’t growl like that,
so it was probably the bobcat”.
Well then…….

Last time I saw a bobcat I did something really stupid
and ended up with a broken ankle.
Glad this time I opted for smarter.

I’ve heard you can’t fix stupid.