This weekend is Croakerfest in Oriental and the crews are busy making the town look pretty. Temps are dropping to the mid-60’s at night and low 80’s during the day. I am still at anchor and haven’t been plugged into a dock in months.
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Croakerfest
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Palatka for the Blue Crab Festival
We were at the Milltop in St. Augustine and heard Will Pearsall play on a Monday night in front of us and a couple other tables. What a treat! Now it looks like he will play here in Palatka at this weekend’s Blue Crab Festival so I might have to hang around. I would also like to get this old autopilot installed. Matt and Douglas left this morning and I have been cleaning the boat to get ready for the next two weeks of travel. The plan is to get underway right after the holiday because of changes in the bridge schedules and too many crazy boaters.
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Cinco de Mayo
[singlepic id=12 w=320 h=240 float=left]A date filled with good memories for me. It would be great to relive some of them but they tell me you can’t do such a thing. Don’t look back they tell me. Live in the present and have no regrets is what I hear so often. I’m trying. HAPPY CDM to the ones I love.
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Travel plans
By 9pm last night I had everything sorted out. A women named Desire runs a new service to Miami and was going to pick me up Monday morning at 6am to make a 10am train to Palatka. This morning I got a call from a guy that had advertised on Craigslist for passengers to help drive to Iowa and is leaving tonight at about 5pm. That puts me into Palatka at 2 or 3 in the morning but seems like the best option. I will finish up this morning at the dive shop and then run Edana’s car to the marina and pack what I have down here.
Apologies to those that where upset with the Rush post. I have just as many conservative friends as I do liberal friends and when you attack their guy I think they feel attacked themselves. The message was to think and not believe everything you hear. I will do the same.
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Last night was on fire
I heard popping sounds last night that I thought was a St. Patrick’s Day celebration. It was my first night renting a room in the backyard of a friend of a friend’s house in Key Largo. It turns out the sounds and smells were coming from the restaurant and bar next door. Snook’s was burning!! There are charred chunks of the building right out from my door so there could have been some exploding going on. I didn’t even get up because I had no idea it was such a major fire. My dreams the last few nights have been full of adventure so I never know what is real in the middle of the night. Brenda owns this house and said she has pictures so I will see if I can post something soon.
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Traffic Report
There was a car accident down here. A woman was trying to get herself all shaved up for her new bikini and was shaving while driving. She was in the drivers seat and her ex-husband was reaching across from the passenger seat attempting to steer the car. They were on the way to the woman’s boyfriends place. Did you follow all that? Here is the link.
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The Keys
I am in the Keys for a little while.
It has taken a couple of hours to upload a couple of photos so this post will be short. We have been here since Thursday and this shot was from one of the schooners in Key West. Yesterday three of us went to Ft. Lauderdale to walk the megayacht docks. Afterward we went to Coral Gables Sailing Club and ate some tacos with a friend of Bret and Edana’s. -
The Cup
Monday could be the first race of the America’s Cup. They are taking place in Spain again this year and the coverage on television may not even happen. Both boats are multihulls and the speeds are scary fast.
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Music in the park
For over twenty years Pensacola has had free concerts in one of the downtown parks. People bring tables for food, wine and beer and a relaxing evening is had by all. It seems like something is happening all year long. A couple of nights ago they closed one of the malls and had a tux and gown party with booths representing the local restaurants and many open bars.
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