We enjoyed an unplanned moonlight cruise one recent evening, when we decided to boat to downtown Fort Myers. Our purpose was to have a late lunch/early dinner at the grand opening of a new river-front restaurant.
Just as our group of ten ordered our drinks, the electricity in the restaurant went out. We hung around assuming it would come back on (in fact, since it was still daylight it took awhile before we even realized what had happened.)
After about half an hour, the waiter told us that the restaurant would have to close for the evening. I guess they had underestimated the amount of juice they would need!
We walked to another restaurant and back (and then found that the first restaurant had locked the gates to the marina, entailing a phone call to the dockmaster to learn the gate comination). So we boated home in the dark. Happily it was a moonlit night and I did get some pretty sky pictures.
(The picture in the center of the collage is a commercial river boat called the Captain JP, which takes tourists on the exact same river trips we are lucky to get to do with our own boat. It was pretty all lit up.)
FOR: SKYWATCH FRIDAY (extremely late) and MOSAIC MONDAY.
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