Good Stopped at a tiny fruit stand and picked up some incredible late summer produce, including plums so juicy they could only be eaten on the swim deck.
Good Plenty of successful skiing, wakeboarding, and tubing.
Bad Got myself squeezed between a downed skier and a shallow area. Stupidly tried to back up and the prop ate the rope. Fortunately some quick teamwork undid the tangle and no damage done except for the old rope. Pull out the new rope and carry on, with lesson learned!
Good Found a great spot for lunch with excellent wildlife viewing, swimming, and sheltered from passing wakes.
Weird While eating lunch, someone in a twin-engine piston plane decided to fly low passes over a group anchored about 100 yards from us. And I do mean low passes. A couple of them were by us. This is a boating forum, so I'll leave out the comments on pilot decision making. This is an uncropped iPhone photo (so a fairly wide angle lens).
Good Saw a couple of guys working jet skis in a manner that seemed to defy physics, doing multiple full upside-down flips in a row, with no waves. Pretty incredible, though many of you may find it routine.
Bad I'm still struggling to get the rope back to a downed skier consistently. I may be too chicken about hitting them because too often it just passes around them just out of reach. Maybe a little more power in the turn after passing them would tighten the turn.
Good Nice dinner at Moore's Riverboat. Docking was not the smoothest; need to work on our crew coordination.
Good Well, really great. Sunset and moonlight cruise back to the ramp after dinner.
Good Very smooth launching and recovery (never to be underrated).
Pretty decent day!