Halfway Home!

We can now say we have completed a 9 hour transit on the Mildred Belle! Today was the longest trip we will be taking on our buyboat. Our two watches (Port and Starboard) both took turns manning the essential functions of the boat. While one watch was manning the boat, the other took some time to relax and complete a few projects.
Our last campsite was very buggy and hot; Christina and Sunny made sure I mentioned this fact. To fight the bugs and humidity we made a fire. It wasn't so bad after that. On the boat today Andrew and Ashley went around with a spray bottle full of water and sprayed people in the face and neck to fight the heat.
Yesterday we took a ferry ride to Tangier island and took in the sites. We saw lots of crabhouses surrounding the island that are used to prepare the crab boxes before and after the catches. Each house looked like a huge treehouse in the water. After seeing the town on the island (which Luke and Hershal think would be a perfect place to retire- you don't need cars, only golf carts!) we went swimming in the bay. It was nice and warm and the bottom of the bay was SO smooth. In fact, there was lots of clay on the bottom of the bay which Dylan and others put on their faces as masks. Eliza claimed that this would smooth their faces. We also saw a very strange carcass on the beach. We think it might have been a dolphin but it was too mangled to tell for sure. We called the authorities but no one was available for inspection.
We have been going for five days but it still feels like it just began. We might be hot, and we might be sweaty, but we are still having fun!

Thats all for now. Mildred Belle, signing out!