Phospherescence, Spanish Moss, and the familiar SailFollow

It recently snowed 4" where I live. I have grown up mainly in the Pacific Northwest and am used to the lifestyle. But I spent three weeks this past summer with my father down in Florida and South Carolina. He is a retired U.S Airforce Srgt. and his wife is a doctor. It had been almost a year since I had seen them. Well, as it turns out, those three weeks were some of the most memorable times I have yet to see. I learned much from my uncle George whom which we spent a week staying with in his Civil War built house in SC on a the river. He owns eight 15' sailboats, and one 30'. I learned to sail while staying with them in this history rich house. Have home cooked breakfast under the live oaks draped with spanish moss, go sailing down channels, and up coves (the doplhins were a nice touch, they get curious and come to say hi from 6" away) then go for a swim at 12am. I almost freaked out when I noticed hundreds of bright, fire-fly like things swimming around me in the water. This was my first encounter with phospherescence! The best way I could explain it, would be to imagine yourself as a sparkler on the fourth, but instead of sparking from a flame, when you move, you let off sparks, except under the water.( in my opinion, it is like the northern lights, you need to see it to fully appreciate it) This quickly led into a Kayak run into one of the 5 coves on the river at 1am under a full moon. I talk to my father on an almost daily basis, and he updates me with what goes on down there, so I guess this is my way of getting home sick for my home away from home. May all of you who also have a fondness of the open sail, and salt in your air, please post your loving moments.


A pic of spanish moss for you that don't know what it is.

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Just to help out any English speakers may have who crashed into that random selection of nouns, verbs and adjectives, allow me to clarify one of the more interesting alien grammatical constructs:

"whom which" translates as "I have a feeble grasp of the rules of grammar, but I once saw a programme on BBC World where intelligent people said "Whom" instead of "who", so I'll misuse the word out of context to impress fUcktards who can't distinguish between the nominative and the accusative".

I'm quietly confident that this is a major factor in your father moving half a continent away from you.

Merry Christmas.

Yeah, but it's Christmas mate.

Even I respect the season and adapt my behaviour accordingly.

There'll be time for prisoners after New Year

Paragraphs help twit.

What, there's no wind on rivers?

We cut handicapable people some extra slack.

You don't have 190 ft. waves on Superior or in El Carib, either, but I know a few people who would tell you it qualifies as real sailing. For my money, any time you can get yourself in a position where shore is out of sight, you can call it sailing.

lol poor gramar, I'm sorry, and there are tides on the river, the house is only a mile off the coast, i should have clarified

Heres some pictures of waves on one of the Great Lakes. If you're interested....