Creatures of nature

You KNOW that a lot of things will happen to your fresh painted wood. The rigger may stand on it (yes, he did), dust from the nearby yard could blow on it (yes, it happened as well), not to mention the unforeseen rain.... But you do not expect that some fancy monsters tramp on it!! One of them was over a meter long and we just noticed it because it was jumping on the boat next to us. The third one jumped straight into the water just to climb up the pile our boat is moored to - feels a bit like being under Alien supervision...Funny stuff. Otherwise we are very busy with bringing the boat into ship shape for the ride to the Caribbean and since the internet was out of order the last four days - some updates will follow...