We left River's Edge Marina in St. Augustine at 7:45 a.m. after a nice, hot "real" shower in the bath house. Oh, the small pleasures in life.
Temperature was 69 degrees when we left the marina, but reached 79 degrees later in the day. We went through eight bridges today. We had the head sail up for a while, but the wind was in our face most of the day, so we motored at 3000 rpms. The current was in our favor, though, pushing us along. SOW was 6-7 knots with SOG at 7.79. Winds were 14-15 knots.
At left, our view as we left St. Augustine (Flagler College buildings in the background).
We were underway about an hour and I went below and couldn't find Jazzy. We jumped up into the V-berth and was hiding under the clothes that were hanging. She limbed out and I snapped her picture.
What do you want, mommy?
This is the city marina where we stayed on the way down.
We arrived at our anchorage at Ft. George Island at 2:45 p.m. We didn't like this anchorage the last time we were here, but didn't realize that's where we were headed until we got here. There's LOTS of boat traffic until dusk and the current is strong.
It's a blowout low tide. Skipper Bob recommends anchoring just east or west of green marker 5, but we couldn't get a hold there, so we moved up to green marker 3 and tried there. Success.
It was my turn to cook dinner and we had the beef stew that I made the other night before we decided to go out to eat. Wayne wasn't planning on putting the motor on their dinghy, so we put ours on. I made a salad, cut angel food cake and strawberries, packed up the cool whip, salad dressings, some Italian bread and the stew and we took dinner over to Bum's Rest.
The no-see-ums are awful here! And no air with no power.
Tomorrow we'll cross the Florida border to Jekyll Island, Ga.
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