It is Good Friday and had fish on the mind so buzzed over to the Theater of the Sea in Islamorada, Florida.
It’s well worth the $25 for admission to see the joy on the kids’ faces as the come cheek to cheek with sea creatures.
It is also a place that, while entertaining, spices the script with conservation and environmental messages. 
This is a much less commercial venue than most and you get the feel of the Keys in the pathways overhung with native flora, including a vibrant display or orchids. 
The Dolphins are the usual big hit flipping, jumping, and singing, all the while being well supplied with shrimp by the young handlers. Young and old alike can swim here with Dolphins, Rays and Sea Lions but you pay extra and are sequestered in special pools away from the throngs. 
One extraordinary sight were the giant sea turtles nibbling on the vegetation and sunning. 
Before the entertainment, it was the routine mechanical work on the Storm Rider: weather stripping windows, waxing the deck and fixing a battery malfunction, so all will be ship shape for the run to Key West next weekend, a delay due to crowded docks due to an international fishing tournament. Tomorrow it is off to the John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park in Key Largo, America’s first undersea park and one of the natural wonders of the grand reefs the run down the Keys. We’ll try to get in some snorkeling around the reef, www.johnpennekamppark.com. We hope everyone’s Easter weekend will be joyful. Happy sails!
04.10.09 - Memories of the day
ENDING OF A GREAT DAY!!