Boats everywhere

 Coast Guard fixing a day beacon

  David thanked them for their service

 There must have been 4-5 barges at this small turn in the waterway.  The color of the water was beautiful

  Grant, do you recognize this plant.  You have one sitting in your living room and Leslie on her back porch. Never seen one more than 2' tall

  This is one HUGE boat, crew was keeping her shiny

  Here's the boat, that little white dot off the bow is the guy working above

 Tons of "wizards" as Jake used to call them

  Heron or Crane?? It's here in the marina

  The entrance into  the marina was quite shallow, 7.5' so we only had 24" between us and the bottom. That's cutting it a little close, yikes

 Trying to get to the bridge on time for a lift.  There's that beautiful water again.  It was only in one small area and then went back to green again.

  Sunken Dream #1

  Coconut palms

  Florida seems to love Brandon

  Sunrise

  

 A large colorful pelican yard decoration

  We think this is one house??

  Crew off some BIG boat polishing the boat's name

  There's always a nearby train

  Bridge Lift

  Good boat name

 Note to self.  When making pizza at home, don’t put 4tsp of salt in the dough, only use 4grams, my bad.  The dough didn’t rise properly, with the wind blowing as hard as it was, the Ooni could not get up to it’s 900 degree temp and the dough was so salty, we picked the toppings off, they were good.  Live and learn. We were glad to leave the mooring field behind this morning.  My dear friend Marilyn checked in to see how things were going. Here’s what I told her:

Being on the mooring was pretty hellish last night.  Waves were 1’to 2’, mostly 2’, wind was blowing 15-20 knots.  The rolling was fine but when the lines (tied to the mooring ball) were so strained that they started crying “uncle”, it woke me up, which is hard to do, and instantly pissed me off, grrr.  David put in earplugs and went back to sleep. I huffed and went upstairs to sleep on the settee. David got back up and brought me a blanket since sleeping on the rich corinthian vinyl is pretty uncomfortable. Not a great way to start the day, ha.  We are near Ft Lauderdale.  On the way here, somebody gave us the horn, a little whiny ass horn, David in response gave him back a blast from our deep baritone, shut the hell up horn, and David just added, gave him the California Howdy Do too.  We were trying to make it in time for a bridge lift and some guy in a boat just big enough to block the flow of traffic pulled out from one of those neighborhood marinas, right in front of us. We did end up making the bridge lift because the guy finally pulled over enough to continue his Sunday drive (even though it’s Tuesday) admiring the yards, boats or anything else he didn’t see yesterday. 

Anyway, we are in Old Port Cove Marina.  Once again we are a minnow in a pond with whales.  This is probably the nicest marina we have stayed at.  It is so manicured, the landscape, the buildings, the docks, the laundry room (they had 6 new washers and 6 new driers AND a change machine!), even the dock carts are unscathed and the wheels are still round.  You pay for what you get and man it’s nice.  David is madly trying to find a route for tomorrow. We have 5 travel days left until we get to Stock Island (Key West).  Our reservations start on March 4th so we have a few days to spare for a good weather window.  There is no more running “inside”, we will have 3 days in the Atlantic. My doc in Phoenix was kind enough to call me in an Rx for a scopolamine patch.  I am not enjoying my seasickness tendency.  We saw some fun stuff today, hope you enjoy the pics.  Today we went from Jensen Beach to almost Ft Lauderdale, 29 miles, 4 hours, we used 18.5 gallons of fuel, the water temp is about 74 degrees, the air temp is 78 with 80% humidity.