Wednesday 3/28 We were off the dock @ 8:30. It's overcast and 58 degrees; winds are light
out of SE but build to 14 mph by afternoon.
We traveled the ICW north and then the St. John's River South to Ortega
landing Marina on the Ortega River in Jacksonville. We did not arrive til 4:50 and then we moved
to another slip that had better access for Millie. We were pretty spent at that point. Got the boat settled and pulled some left
overs out of the refrigerator for dinner.
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| Passed this large shipping terminal |
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| Downtown Jacksonville |
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| Jacksonville Landing |
Thursday 3/29 This is a beautiful marina in a wonderful
location. They have a really nice boaters
lounge, pool & hot tub, FREE ICE AND FREE LAUNDRY.
Tim saw divers headed down the dock to clean
the bottom of another boat on our dock and asked if they could squeeze us in
and an hour later they were cleaning the bottom of OBSERVER and replacing a
couple of zincs for us.
Did a tour of
their neighborhood across the bridge on the bike.
It was really stunning with beautiful homes
of all sizes and mature trees throughout.
We got a tour of American Tug 435 that was in our marina - nice to get a
good luck around the bigger version of OBSERVER. Our crew took a tour up river
to check out the other marinas and boats in the area.
The most notable is Huckins Marine - they
build classic style motor yachts and they had several beauties staying in their
marina.
We BBQ'd up some dinner on one
of the marina grills and enjoyed a close to full moon from our boat slip.
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| Moon rising aver the marina |
Friday 3/30 Did a West Marine run, then a Publix run,
then it rained.
We spent some time
stratergizing where we plan to stop and for how long over the next week or so as
we move North.
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| Millie completely relaxed in the pilot house |
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