Several years ago when George got the idea for the Great Loop trip, we chartered Patience, a 32 foot Grand Banks, and went to several islands. We had a great time, and we found that the motor noise did not disturb us. So here we are on a return trip.
This morning was cold and clear and sunny. Lovely day for travel on the ICW. It seemed that everyone was coming outside after our three grey days. We saw an older gent with a shovel on a sand bar, digging for oysters perhaps? We saw a paddler on Lemon Bay; bird watchers at Cedar Point; the ubiquitous fishermen. In fact, a fishing boat caught a mess of mullet right beside our boat while we were still docked this morning. A dolphin followed us for several minutes, racing Aunt Aggie and leaping in the surf.
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| He has a boat parked out of the frame, but he's walking along the sand bank. We left at low tide and really had to watch the channel. In this video I'm trying to show how shallow the water is outside the channel. Here's the dolphin beside our boat: (Movies had to be removed in order to print this.) |
We were moving pretty well down the ICW in Lemon Bay, and a ferry pulled out in front of us.
We put on the brakes and watched him move across the narrow waterway. When we checked our map with Active Captain, it said the ferry has no schedule, so watch out. We need to look ahead, behind, and 360 degrees. Here's the loaded ferry.
We came into Uncle Henry's Marina at noon. It is beautiful here. We took a long walk and tried to get to the beach, but it is blocked by expensive houses. (Tomorrow we will be at Caya Costa Island, so we can beach walk then.) Now I am drying three loads of laundry. Oh, our life is romantic!
Check out the new, entertaining boat name George found. (See the Witty Boat Names page.) Remember Seinfeld?
I love the dolphin escort!
ReplyDeletethanks. They are delightful.
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