To Fort Pierce ~

Thursday, 3/26/20 ~ We departed at 8:45 this morning.  The boat is sitting low in the water, due to the extra provisioning. There are lots of boats anchored and many others on the move north.  Monroe, Miami-Dade and Port St. Lucie counties have now closed the fishing piers, beaches and marinas.  Apparently, it is city/county marinas, but not private marinas.

The first of many . . . .

Houses of many colors

     Today, we begin again with the bridge openings.  While waiting for one of the bridges, Pete saw a 2-foot ray jump about 3 feet into the air. The strangest occurrence happened as we were approaching the Donald Ross Bridge, there was a 45-50-foot Sport Fish in front of us.  He was just crawling up to the bridge. We had already called in and the bridge tender called out to the Sport Fish to get him to increase speed as we also were trying to make the opening.  He didn’t know that we were behind him, but also, he didn’t need the opening as he could pass under with no problems.  DUH!!! 

     Fort Pierce City Marina is closed, but there is a great anchorage just across the ICW which is great.  It is deep, wide, and out of the heavy current.  We have recommended it to others, but we have never before used it.  It is a bit of a trip to get Bailey to shore, but doable.

     While getting items from the refrigerator for dinner, I noticed that the butter was soft.  When checking the internal temperature, the reading was 58 degrees!  Somehow the fridge was turned off last night along with the propane solenoid.  Since it was defrosted, but the food and condiments still cool, I turned it back on, emptied the lower fridge, pumped out the water, and dried the moisture at the bottom, and refilled it again.  Whew! That was close!

Each sunset is different

      The Honda is working great. We were fully charged by 10 pm and the fridge was just about back to normal temp. Time for bed.

~ ~ ~ /) ~ ~  P & K