St. Augustine

Our friends Mark and Karen left Beaufort, South Carolina this morning to sail overnight to St. Augustine. They had to haul their boat for a couple days there to make a repair on their drive shaft packing.

Finally a relatively warm morning and a fairly slack tide to get off the dock. Two of the boats leave just ahead of us.

Container Ship heading up the St.Johns river to Jacksonville

We cross the St. Johns River and soon pass under another bridge having some work done. Unfortunately a few days ago our friends Jack & Ann had their mast light and VHF antenna damaged snagging the bridge covering hanging under the bridge. This cover lowered clearance by 3 feet and they went through right at an exceptionally high, high tide. The bridge was being sand blasted and it sounded like a jet airplane immediately over head as we passed underneath.

A pleasant day for a change. We get through the “Bridge of Lions” at 1:30 PM. Should of made the 1:00 opening by my timing was off and we had a short wait. We pickup our mooring at 1:15PM.

Bridge of Lions, St. Augustine

We head into the marina to pay our bill and take showers. Later we head into town to have dinner at the “Latin Kitchen”. We have eaten there before and dinner again was very good. I should of quit there, but we decided to split a desert. They mentioned a new desert, “Avocado Crème brûlée”, so I thought it had to be good since it sounded kind of disgusting. I should of stuck with my first impression, even without it being green, it was more green pudding than Crème brûlée.