Man, I can't believe its 9 days since my last blog! Time flies! Anyway, we made it down to Stewart from Vero in 5 hours. A nice cruise in warm weather accompanied by a multitude of dolphins! Dylan was very happy watching his fellow mammals ride our wake. One enthusiastic dolphin rode along for about 5 miles! Apparently he had a hot date I at Jensen Beach where he dropped off!. We made our way up the St Lucie River at slack tide which meant we weren't fighting a 2-3 or current! We took mooring ball 9 at Sunset Bay Marina near the town park, which makes it easy to walk Dylan. Deb and Ron from Scheharazade were here until 2 days ago. Donna and Deb did a lot of shopping almost everyday! They rode courtesy bikes all over town looking for who knows what! Lol. Last Wed. we met up with Larry and Margie from Travellin' L&M, who live in Port St Lucie not to far from the marina. We went out to a Chinese all you can eat buffet and stuffed ourselves....so good! We are going out with them again tonight to check out the Christmas lights in Ft Pierce...should be fun! We also went out to Dinner at local favorite, Duffy's, with Manfred, who is from Brian and Jane's yacht club in Toronto! ( Mar a Lago). It was great to talk to him again. Manfred was born in Germany during WWIl and is a great source of historical knowledge about the War from a German perspective. Just a great guy who lives on his boat here all winter....can we do this into our 80's like him? We shall see...... The courtesy bus has taken us on a couple of shopping excursions out of town which is always a nice perk, driven by Sam who is the marina mgt and is a real card! He knows a lot of jokes! We even met up with Allan and Geraldine from Stray Cat fame who now are here from New Brunswick on their RV! We met them for lunch on Saturday after we went to the Flea Melt. It was great to see them again. They are loving their new RV life and are planning to circumnavigate the US and Canada! Maybe we will go with them in our RV someday on an adventure! The other thing I've been busy with is replacing our old, tired solar panels. I ordered them from Amazon and they arrived in 5 days! I removed the old ones in about an hour and installed the new ones in a couple of hours. I even moved our satelite dome to the other side of the boat to stop it from shading the panel. We have gone from 4 amp hours to 13 Amps with the new panels! Very happy! We are here until Saturday morning before we head south to Port Cove Marina for one night as we push south to Marathon. We want to get plugged in to give the batteries a good jolt. We have been on our generator and solar for 18 days! The last comment us its been tricking cold for the last 5 days! 60's in the day and 40's at night....very unusual weather for sure! We need to get south! Thats all for now....we always enjoy our stay in Stuart!
Fair Winds and Calm Seas!