A shot of the main street in Saint Augustine, Fl.
Terry Brown, Mary, Andy, and Rhonda Brown
The ICW between Saint Augustine and Jacksonville Beach
For a couple of miles there are homes lining the ICW...each one has a cool dock set-up. This one has a tiki lounge upstairs
This one is very simple
Here's the other side of the specturm
The chanel off the ICW, as we enter Palm Cove Marina
The waterway entering Palm Cove
If you look closely on the left side of this picture, you will see that the starboard shaft is broken, and the prop is gone. The guy standing below the boat, said he does not remember hitting anything?
Log 124Day 340
Sunday, April 26, 2009
7:30 AM EDT
Location: Palm Cove Marina, Jacksonville Beach, FL.
Weather: 68, clear, with light winds. Forecasted to be mid 80’s and sunny.
A beautiful Sunday morning in Jacksonville Beach. Light winds, a few puffy clouds in the sky, the sun is coming up over the boats. Looks like a great day.
We enjoyed our time in Saint Augustine. Walking around the town with Andy and Mary, and having dinner at Harry’s. We also walked back into town on Friday, and had lunch at a Greek spot so Mary could have a Greek salad. After that, we walked the area...well they walked the area...I went back to the boat. I guess I’m not much of a tourist? But it’s a great town, and worth anyone’s visit. In case anyone is interested...Mary does a great job on her blog, and has lots of great pictures of Saint Augustine. You can see them @ http://goodnews.sarver.org/
Friday evening Andy and Mary came to HQ for boat cocktails (that’s the same thing as regular cocktails...except they taste better), and about 7 pm Terry and Rhonda Brown came to the boat (Terry is a logistics industry friend, who moved to Jacksonville a few years ago). The 6 of us had a great time over cocktails, and Andy and Mary left before dinner (maybe they weren’t having as much fun as I thought). Terry, Rhonda, Deb, and I had spaghetti, and drank wine till way past my bedtime. A great evening, and it was fun catching up with them.
At 6:45 am yesterday, Andy and Mary took off from Saint Augustine...heading for Fernandina Beach, where they will hook up with some other boating friends (Brad and Pattie) on Salvage Crew. We were in no hurry, so we left the dock about 8:30. The ICW between Saint Augustine and Jacksonville Beach is very easy to navigate, and deep in most places. In fact it is some of the best ICW cruising we have had in Florida. Very wide in a lot of places, and for most of it, there are no speed or wake restrictions. You go from wide open waters, with sea grass on both sides, to channels with beautiful homes on both sides. It was only about 40 miles to Jacksonville Beach, and we arrived at 12:30 pm. A great ride.
Palm Cove Marina is a nice marina just off the ICW, at MM747. As you can tell by the pictures, it has a fairly narrow channel leading to the marina, and at low tide it becomes interesting. Before heading to our slip we took on 180 gallons of fuel ($2.05 @ gallon...great price), and they put us on the T-head of dock C. After hooking up, and a quick boat sandwich, we took a walk to the marina office to check in, and get our bearings on the area. This is a nice stop. It has floating docks; a restaurant for breakfast and lunch; another one for a nice dinner; a good laundry room; a Publix grocery store about a 10 minute walk; 2 boat dealerships; and a service company on site. We plan to stay here for 3 nights...leaving Tuesday morning.
Future plans...on Monday evening, we plan to have dinner with friends of ours, Ernie and Debbie Veale. Ernie and I first met, when his company (Stellar) built a warehouse for us in the early 90’s. We have been friends ever since. Deb and I really look forward to getting together with them. On Tuesday, we plan to head to Fernandina, FL...our last stop in Florida. My hope is to then skip the Georgia ICW, and go outside (in the Atlantic) to Saint Simons Island, GA., and then go outside again, to Hilton Head Island, SC. The Atlantic will have to cooperate, but we’ll what happens.
I’ll keep you posted.
Bob
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