When we can't get on the internet every day we have to flip open our phones to find out what day it is. Wonder what we did before technology came along. Well, today is Sunday and we're doing the laundry and taking showersat the Palm Cove Marina in Jacksonville, FL. We had planned to go to church somewhere here tonight but the marina is way out of town with no public transportation.
Today was a fairly short cruise. It was too far to get to St. Augustine so we had a leisurely 30 mile cruise to Jacksonville.It was a pretty nice day....low 70's, light wind on our stern and a rising tide with the current pushing us most of the way. Uneventful, well except the one time I (Phil) hit a "bump in the road" commonly called the bottom!! I guess I must have been daydreaming.Just a little bump. No need to call TowBoat.
There are several boats here in the marina all lit up for Christmas.We have only turned ours on the one night so that we could a pciture to our cruise club.Heard the flotilla was great, as usual.
We want to stop in St. Augustine to visit the marine consignment shop to see if we can find the right size anchor for our boat. The one we have is too small. We called our friends Don and Sandi who were "live aboards" until last year when they bought a house in the mountains near Asheville, NC.We wanted to get some information about where the consignment shop is located. And guess what... we haven't seen them in over 2 years and they just happen to be coming to St. Augustine on Monday to take some of their boating stuff to the consignment shop. Wow! how good of God to make such nice arrangements for us to see our friends again.
I'm in the laundry room finishing up the laundry while Vi's in the marina lounge watching the Packers and the Giants do battle on TV...something we haven't seen much of lately. She came in and reminded me that we had not posted anything on the blog about Friday or Saturday.
We started off Saturday from Two Way Fish Camp Marina in Brunswick, GA. Bruswick is supposedly where brunswick stew orginated and got it's name. The morning was clear so we left about 7:15 headed to Fernandina Beach, FL.We passed a boat with no hailing port but it did have NC registration so we radioed him and ask where he was from. Turned out he had spent the last year in Elizabeth City and was traveling south alone.Perhaps we'll see him again in the Keys.
Once again the tides were with us so we made really good time with little trouble except a couple of sounds that kicked our butt. It's funny because I was talking to our friend Shirley Banrcord just before we crossed the first sound. She wanted to know if these sounds could get rough like the Albemarle. Not sure what I told her but now I can definitely say "YES". We could see the Atlantic off to our left and there were whitecaps so big they looked like boats. But God protected us from the rough water.
The wind had kicked up, gusting to 25 mph, when we arrived in Fernandina Beach. We tied up at the dock and rode our bikes for a short distance in the historical district.(Pictures below). Then back to the boat and out to a mooring bouy...boy was that fun in gusty winds...after some assistance from a guy we had met earlier in SC we finally got tied off.
Don't have much to write about Friday, trip was smooth with "no bumps in the road" except the one we hit coming out of the creek leading to the ICW. We spent Thursday night in a small marina outside of Richmond Hills, Ga where AJ Reynolds once had an estate. The scenery enroute was just more of the salt marshes that we saw all through Georgia.
Sorry folks, can't upload any pictures with this wi-fi connection. Maybe next time..until then God bless.
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