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Today was a good day, we have been on the move for the last 54 days, and we got to enjoy staying still with a visit from my Dad today. My Dad delivered our new EPIRB that was replaced under warranty, and we also had a great lunch at a local waterside restaurant. Definitely happy […]

With a cold front blowing in and a possible storm forming off the coast, we plan on anchoring a few days. Today we toured the Kennedy Space Center, it was a unplanned tour, but it was worth it, we figured we would probably not ever be back in this area and it was pretty cool

After a calm night anchored near Daytona, we picked up anchor early and started our Journey through New Smyrna Beach and then a long stretch of Mangrove trees and little islands. The ICW is not very wide here, if you go off course you would certainly run aground. After going through about 30 miles of

Today we started at the crack of dawn, out of bed by 6 and underway by 6:30, we just barely made the opening on the first bridge at 6:50. Leaving St Augustine behind, we traveled basically in a straight line down the Florida ICW to Daytona, we had to wait for 3 different bridge openings

Day 2 in St Augustine, we were going to see the fountain of youth so i can take a drink and stay young forever, however they wanted $20 to see it, and if anyone knows me they know i would rather just keep getting older rather than spend $20. We did take another tour bus

We landed in St Augustine today, it was only a 12 mile sail from our anchorage last night. We caught the current from the anchorage which kept us moving around 7 knots, the issue was all the anchorages close to town were jammed, so went up to one about 2 miles up river, while going

Today we motored all day again, through some windy and shallow parts of the ICW, however the last 20 miles were almost completely straight. We arrived at an anchorage around 4:30 with 4 other boats. The weather was very warm around 80 with no wind. Tomorrow is just a short jump to St Augustine, where

We had 2 very nice days, we started day 46 motoring from South Cumberland Island to Fernandina Beach, FL- it was only a 7 mile jump. Once there we topped off fuel and pumped out, then grabbed a mooring ball so we can get some work done and reprovision, the alcohol bill seems to be

Today we took a short jump from the North side of the Cumberland Island to the South SIde, we explored the ruins of the Carnegie mansion, also walked the beach in this spectacular national park. seen the biggest turkeys we have ever seen, I thought they were Ostriches. Here is a link in case you

The last 2 days we decided to stay anchored, the winds have been gusting to 40mph at times due to the front that came through on Tuesday night. We went for hike yesterday along the main trail on the island, then came back and made sure the boat was ok. We are getting tossed around

We only motored for about 20 miles today, we left around 9 am and got to our anchorage around 1:30. We dropped the dinghy and went ashore. Cumberland Island is a National park and we explored the northern part, which was amazing. The landscape was great and we seen armadillos, a wild horse and wild

We started our day around 7, however we did not pull anchor until 8:30, the fog was very thick, we had a hard time seeing, luckily we installed radar and the ais helps when you are flying blind. Also having 2 navigation maps was a big help. We use Navionics as our main map, but

Today was an easy motoring day- we only wanted to cover about 30 miles, we are anchored at wolf island, it is a protected animal sanctuary, you are not allowed to go on the island. There are plenty of fish jumping around us. On our trip today we encountered at least 50 different dolphins. I

We woke up late today, knowing we wanted to take a day to enjoy the weather . I sat outside watching this blackbird drinking the morning dew off the solar panels. Then the dolphins came into feed, there were at least 10 of them. It never gets old seeing them though. Then i started a

On Days 36 and 37 we stayed in Savannah, we did a food tour then a hop on hop off bus, we got a better feel for the town on the second day. The first day i felt the city was much like Philly, it has a history, but is also very modernized , unlike