Stop Bugging Me (Carrabelle to Cedar Key)
Wednesday 4/23/14
Out of yesterday’s wind but into no-see-um hell. The protected basin is
no protection from the swarming buggers and I’m ready to take a room at the
adjacent motel.
They’ve been plaguing me since Pensacola, sometimes itching
so badly I would have screamed if not to wake the other guys. West Coast
sailors may laugh but here’s my accumulated arsenal; SPF 40 and 50 Sunscreen, a
no-brainer, Repel Mosquito Wipes and Repel 100 Mosquito Spray, which I sprayed
around my companionway hatch but next morning found paint dissolved! CVS Soft
Skin Bath Oil Spray (same as Avon Skin-So-Soft long-time cure for no-see-ums),
Listerine Antiseptic (was recommended by a sports outfitter for no-see-ums), Cortizone-10
Cooling Gel (to relieve itching), and Burt’s Bees Ultimate Care Body Lotion (a moisturizer).
But here I sit, looking like I have the measles. Steve told the story of his
presentation on Florida insects; visible and invisible!
But Steve, this morning, is slow moving and feeling ill
again (as loosing a custom centerboard would make any small-boat sailor ill).
So, he packs up B. Frank and heads home to Panama City. Dan and I are leaning
east and trailer the boats to beautiful Cedar Key. Too late to launch the
boats, we get spaces at Sunset Isle RV Park and Motel as “nautical” RVs. $33
for me to sleep on Hobbes and Dan sets up sleeping quarters in the bed of his
truck. I wonder what this trailer went for.
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