Showing posts with label Fla anchored. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fla anchored. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

1/6/15 Tuesday St Augustine, Fla

Well as I said we would do yesterday we got up at 5:30am dressed camera in hand, went out on the front of the boat with 5 others on the dock to watch the missile launch from Cape Canerval!! 1 min and 20 secs before lift off they aborted the launch and rescheduled for Friday!!! We were so disappointed!!!
So we started our motors and off we went about 6:45am. As you will see below a beautiful sunrise!
10 hours today got us to just south of St. Augustine Fla. a good day of travel. Weather was about 72-75 degrees all day. And no wind!!! Yeah!!!
Anchored out tonight at a calm cove so should be a good nights sleep!!  Pizza for dinner Digiorno's!! I I have a few good pics to share tonight. Hope you enjoy!!
Love to all we hope to make it to the St. John's River tomorrow and head south again to Sanford!!!
Fran and Capn Fod

Leaving the docks at Titusville this morning !! No missile launch to share but a georgeous sunrise!!

Lots of Dolphins today!!!!  Rod caught this pic just as he jumped up in front of the boat!!! They played in our boat wake many times today. Lexie is obsessed with looking for the Dolphins!!!
What's the chance of passing a good friend form Georgetown!!! Ronnie Campbell our Georgetown Tow boat guy!! He's in the boat named Prodical Son!!! Headed for the keys for some R&R!!

Monday, December 29, 2014

12/29/14 Monday N. Palm Beach

Well today was a much better travel better than yesterday!!! A lot less boat traffic. 
The one bad thing about coming back is you travel and see the same thing, only backwards!! Ha
There is no other way back except the same way you went down. Weather is still beautiful had a little shower on us last night and the bridge had to be dried this morning ( as we did leave the windows open) but the hot sun dried it very quickly. It was fun yelling Happy New Year to all those we passed today. This year is almost gone!! 
We have planned our timing to be in Fort Pierce on News Years Eve. Paula and Jim tell us it's the best ever!! Hopefully see lots of fireworks and lots of activities going on in town that night. 
Saw the same things and took pics on our trip down so few to post tonight! I promise lots of pics from Fort Pierce. 
As always I send much love to each of you as you follow our journey and still ask you to pray for us!!
Fran and Capt Rod
Somehow I missed these Carolers on the trip down! They were life size!!

Saw theses party barges sittin in a bay near Ft. Lauderdale. Rod decided this would be our retirement business !!!  Hehe


There were several of these sitting in the bay!!!

A HUGH collection of sail boats in a cove!! Picture really don't show the magnitude of this collection. 



Saturday, December 27, 2014

12/27/14 Saturday Key Largo, Fla

Our 3rd day in Key Largo!!, such a friendly beautiful town!! We have seen about everything we can but this morning we decided to pack a picnic and go to the State park. Off we went in our trusty double seated bicycle (we have put many many mile on this thing!!) only about 1mile ride and when we got there, they said it was $2.50 per bike. And said will I guess it's just one bike although there are 2 on it so they just charged us $2.50 hehe. They lady said they had never had a 2 seater bike come in before!!
They park was packed!!! OMG!!! I have never seen so many people in a park before. We found a nice bench and ate our lunch, enjoying the beautiful weather and scenery. Then decided to go check out the glass bottom boat tours. There wer 25+ people in line for the next tour which was 2 hours away. So we chose not to wait that long. We decided to just ride the bike. Had a great time there. We left the park and decided on ice cream!!! Just across the street from the park an ice cream shop!!! I I enjoyed Pineaple mango sorbet and and Rod had Strawberry!! 
We went back to a marine surplus store, more like a boat parts yard sale and looked at their junk!! Hehe    Never know when you might find a treasure. 
Returned to the boat and picked up Lexie and took her to the park for some exercise and met up with with the people from Georgetown. They were have a group drinking party in the park!! Not our thing!!,
When we returned from the park we began talking about our friends Jim and Paula and both of us really felt the need to go there and support them with all they are going through right now, Jim will be having knee surgery in 2 weeks, and his has one of his twin boys that starts chemo tomorrow with stage 4 throat cancer. We just really feel we need to be there. We called and let them know we were coming to spend the rest of our vacation time in Sanford!!! I thought Paula was going to cry!!! They were sooooo excited. She said she thought she was dreaming!! ha  We know it is a God thing !!! If we listen He will tell us where we need to be!!, Sooo, plans are made we will be leaving Key Largo tomorrow morning and head back toward Jacsonville beach turn inland and go to Sanford for a month. It will take us a week or better to get there. And we will stop at Fort Pierce and spend a few days in the way back up as we had planned. 
I have posted some pics from today!! So excited to finally catch that ugarina (lizard) and got a good pic of him today!! We have seen several around. They are fast big critters!! I can't imagine having one of those things even getting near where I live!!!
Ready to pull up anchor tomorrow and head back in a north direction to Sanford. It's another 2 1/2 days back south again  from Jacksonville. 
I know we have made the right decision !!
Love to all and pray for our travels!! Fran and Capt Rod

A picnic in the park!! A nice man took our pic for us!!

This critter is better than 3 ft long!!!! I took several pics of him!! This was the closest I could get before he bolted away!!

This sunset has been a daily view!!!