Today’s blog covers three days. They have pretty much been the same. Work on getting the back in shape so that I can go onward. The meds arrived today along with another gentleman who is riding shotgun up by the windshield. We had a nice warm day and immediately this evening the no-see-ums are out in hordes and nothing seems to get rid of them. I have closed everything up since they seem to be able to go right on through window screen, etc. It seems the only thing you can do is just let them land on you and then before they bite you smash them.
Yesterday was different in that we went to Welaka, Florida on the St. John’s river to pick up Kevin’s car that was over there. We now have wheels and today since my meds came we went and did laundry and I stocked the boat with new groceries. In Welaka there is a Maritime Museum which is owned by the man who refurbished and sailed along with his six children a boat called Andante. It was a great lakes fishing boat and they really worked on it for a whole year and the people of Grand Haven, Mich thought he had lost his mind. But it is the story of their adventures on the way to the island of St. Croix in the Carribean where he worked for ten years and then came back to USA. He builds boats to this day in wood using glues and strips of fine lumber which are replicas of the old boats of the past. I sort of overstayed and had to drive part of the way back to Wabasso in the dark which for me was not fun. I found home though even if I didn’t remember all the streets but remembered some of the landmarks as they passed by. You can look on a map and see that we traveled quite a ways to do our deed for the day.
We stopped in Daytona at a boat salvage store and now Shorty has a new set of man size bumpers for the rest of his trip because those that fit nicely into the strorage area just were not holding their own against the walls and piers that Florida has most places. I think I have seen one floating dock to this point and it is one on the Coloosahatchee river where I refueled. They say there are more coming but I doubt it. But we have solved the problem and now when wakes hit him at the dock he just wiggles a lot.
Today we dropped off our rent car and ate breakfast at the airport in Vero Beach. That was a little different way of doing things. Then we took Kevin’s car to the Municipal Marina in Vero Beach where we did laundry and then on the way home stopped and stocked up on groceries for the next move to where I do not know but I think it will be on the hook a little further north. I checked the temperatures and the next few days going north looks okay. I don’t plan on going fast because I still have a few days to go before the first of March. From then on though I am going to have to get it going to make places in the time frame I have set. Tonight was another very pretty sunset and the dolphins were out here snorting and really had some fish cornered and were having a feast. The water today was especially clear and the pelicans were diving and fishing all day long. I wonder if that is some kind of weather omen when they do that.
Today the photo’s finally have a picture of Lucy. She is an old yellow headed female with feathers which when you see them from the top look like they are graying somewhat. The old barn from the last posting has a post that she is usually sitting on when she is not fishing. As Kevin said today this place is one of those that the boaters call a Velcro pier, it is very hard to move on. His next step is the Bahamas in a couple of months. I am going to miss Richard and Mary’s visits and the trips to places to resupply and get other things. They will always remain very special in my heart and I am going to try to stay in touch if possible as I travel. Being in the same place and meeting people for 87 years is truly a feat these days especially when your parents and grandparents before you were also here. They have a neat little second house that is a nice cottage and also has a dock. They are truly a piece of Florida history and a local school teacher who is a friend of theirs is doing a book about the family and when it is published I certainly want to find it and read it. Just think of all the storms and hurricanes this place has weathered over the time that they have lived here. And until Hurricane Gene they always survived intact but this time they lost the orchard that had been there livelihood for all these years.
According to Kevin, parts of the trip coming up do not have good cellphone coverage going north for a ways so the blog may be updated only when I can find the coverage to do so. It does not mean that I have quit writing it just means I have no way of posting it.
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