Well, today is Thursday. It is a little past 1:00 pm and we are still at the marina in Key West. More about why this is in a later post. After the fridge was repaired on Tuesday we hit the pool here at Conch Harbor Marina. Very nice. then it was back aboard Gryphon for some boat drinks and on to dinner at Dante’s. Wednesday morning we woke up and had no water pressure. The fresh water pump had failed. We discovered the problem a little after 9:00 am and by 11:45 am it was fixed. it involved walking three blocks to West Marine to buy a new pump and calling an electrician who came right over to install it.
In the afternoon, we set out to do the Duval Crawl. We hit a lot of art galleries and wandered over to Blue Heaven for lunch among the palm trees, oleander bushes, and of course the chickens and the cats. Blue Heaven is probably the most famous restaurant in Key West. Jimmy Buffett used to hang out there and even penned a song about it. We had been there years ago and were glad to see that it is still thriving. In fact, the Travel Channel was filming an episode of “Man Versus Food” while we ate. And, there was even a musical celebrity of sorts present – Vanilla Ice. Remember him? Ice, Ice, baby.
After all that excitement, we just had to get back to the pool to cool off. Then more boat drinks. Then dinner at Turtle Kraals (don’t ask, I don’t know what a kraal is). We got to talking with our waitress, Jolea from Texas, and she said she was about to qualify for her 100 ton Master Coast Guard license. She has worked as first mate on a number of schooners, including the replica of the Amistad. She said she might be in Maine this summer working on the Appledore. Perhaps our paths will cross again. That’s the way it is with sailors. 
