Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Barnacle Bill

In prepping for departure we had our bottom cleaned (OK, stop laughing, we will wander out of Marathon some day). Or, more precisely, the hull of Rising Star was cleaned which, in an idle state, has attracted a vast biological and zoological ecosystem.

Barnacle Bill arrived to lighten our load. The brown spots on his wet suit are brine shrimp still clinging from the last boat he cleaned. When he surfaced from cleaning our boat he was almost completely covered in brown, wiggly shrimp. Once the flora and fauna are scraped off the hull the shrimp race to the nearest surface - which in this case is Barnacle Bill.

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