David made a trip to the GPS Store to buy “a few things”.  He ordered some electronics since there were none in stock.  The salesman drove him from the store back to the marina, people are so nice here!  While he was gone I gave Ellie a bath, then cleaned the shower, it needed it! We had an uneventful trip to our marina for this night.  David docked the boat perfectly and into a tight spot even.  Dock crews have a hard time believing we’ve only been driving the boat for a month.  We met some people on the dock, got invited to a little get together on their back deck.  I know I keep saying that we keep meeting nice people but we do.  We had fresh shrimp, blue yumbos, as they called them in Rocky Point so many years ago.  Gorgeous and smelled like the ocean.  We turned them into Shrimp Scampi for dinner and put the rest of them in vacuum packed bags into the freezer. I think we will be staying here another day, get some electronics stuff installed and maybe even rest for awhile. Thanks for stopping by❤️

Sunset.

Sunset.


Sunset again.


And sunset yet again.


Jumbo shrimp, so fresh.   Bought from a roadside stand.


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