Day of the Iguanas and horses

Let me back up a minute from the last blog post.  When we Left Lake Worth Joe decided to change head sails from the normal 120 to the 150 jib due to the lighter winds.  Well the jib is buried in the v-berth under our bed and is a pain in the ass to get to.  But Joe was determined to use that sail so he tore up the bed and the entire boat he was also digging into the quarter berth for something I do not remember.  While we are underway he takes down our 120 and proceeds to put up the 150.  Well as all things go it did not go smoothly.  He pulled it up then it would stop and twist the track. Then he tried again and again and again and again etc.  A few choice words were floating back to me at the helm while this process was going on.  He was traipsing back and fourth from bow to stern trying different things to raise the sail.  He took a break in there somewhere to get water and cool down both his body and his temper.  He finally switched something around and forced it up and then it was too long.  We had never put this particular sail up on the boat before.  He then had to take it down again and remove the cables.  I think he had it up and down a total of 8 times but he finally succeeded. And I was not too happy about the mess he had left the cabin in so he cleaned that up after we stopped for the day and he made the bed too.  I was not going to do it I did not make the mess!!! 

Upon getting to our most rocky and lumpy anchorage in Miami we headed out in our dinghy for a look around they have canals here through the city so we could dinghy close to the grocery store or even get closer to the beach.  It is really cool, did not know that about Miami.  Next day we go to this small Island, Bell Island we found out later, near our anchorage I take my camera because we see a monument there and we are curious.  We beach park the dinghy get out and start to explore.  It has a nice beach area and paths that go into the palm trees and sea grapes.  We are just walking along and Joe is in front of me well I see something dash out of a hole in the ground and run up lickety split up the nearest palm tree.  It scared the shit out of me but I got a look at it it was a green iguana about 25 to 30 inches long.  I guess the live on the island and they have grown huge.  After I yell at Joe about what I saw we look up in the palm tree and we can just see his head.   After a few minutes we hear another one.  We then start walking slowly and stopped talking so loud.  I break into my australian accent about us stalking and finding giant iguanas about 20 minutes later Joe sees an iguana kicking sand out of it's den so we sneak up on it and I have my camera ready,  it's a big one about 30 inches, I get some great shots till he runs away into the bush.  Crique it was fun mate, that's a little Australian lingo, lol.
About an hour later we go to get a few provisions, we dinghy up the canal,  across the street from Publix walk across and shop walk back across the street and we are done.  Easiest provisioning we have done yet. we see more iguanas laying on the ledges of the canal getting some sun we even see one coming out of the drain pipe.  Later that day we are going to dinner and we show Rick and Sandy the iguanas near the canal.  When they went to Bell Island they did not see any.  We have since seen more, even today we moved to no name harbor and they are running all over the place.
We took one afternoon and walked down to the infamous South Beach with Rick and Sandy.  Wow were there tons of people there.  Could have been that it was Easter week?  HMMMM. We were also privileged to see part of a Grand Prix horse jumping event that was being held right there on the beach.  They set up a big arena right on the beachfront it was free to watch.  There were horsemen and women from all over the world participating even former Olympians.  What a great thing to happen upon during our stay in Miami.   I will post pictures of Iguanas and horses later.  TTFN