Monday Afternoon

March 20th, 2017

Gilligan's Island

We found Gilligan's Island and the USS Minnow  

There she is, grounded on a deserted island...

Hard aground...

Joell, turn around and drive the boat... you don't have eyes in the back of your head (do you?)

Just had lunch and what do we find...freeloaders...in our wake...

Monday

March 20th, 2017

3 people in the water

Sebastian Inlet

Missed everything but the end on vhf...

Helicopters, boats and land based fire and rescue were coming to the Sebastian Inlet where we are anchored looking for 3 people in the water around 10 pm Sunday night.

Red lights are on-shore fire and rescue, blue are on the water boats along with the helicopter.

1- spotlight, that was us looking around the area of our boat...

It appeared that either the people were hopefully found because around 11:00 pm all rescue personal left the area.

Winds are down to about 5 mph right now and we plan on pulling anchor in a few hours after the tide comes up a bit and continue motoring north...

We were initially going to leave this wonderful anchorage yesterday, but winds got up to 20mph last night.  Lucky for us they were from the north, so we slept good.

Friday

March 17, 2017

We relaxed today.  

Elwood loves to fish

Elwood fishes harder than Mike

Elwood keeps fishing, even with Joell

Saturday

March 18th, 2017

Evidence that Dan and Dianne Chase were on the boat.  Had so much fun, we forgot to take pictures.

Dinner at Squid Lips

Joell's grade school friend Diane and her husband Dan drove to Sebastian State Park and we picked them up in our dinghy for a glass of wine on the boat.  Then they drove us to Squid Lips for dinner...

Diane and Joell are true buddies..

Here's Dan and his Squid Lip wife Diane...

do that too much Diane and they'll stay like that!

We always like to pick up a shirt or hat at fun places but they were pretty much out of everything, so we held up one of their menu's to show where we were...

Wait a minute...there goes a nice Squid Lips Hat on one of the waiters..

hmmm..how are we going to get that hat?

I suppose we could ask him if he'd sell it...

We grabbed the waiter and pulled him aside... his name is Scott...

Here's Scott the waiter and our waitress...

We asked Scott if he'd sell his hat and for how much...

Scott said $15.00 and we gave him $20.00 

We had Scott sign his name inside the hat for remembrance...

While we were at it Mike asked if we could have his name tag too...

He said yes because it was his last day of work at Squid Lips before moving on...

Hey this isn't a rodeo...easy on my new hat...

My god it's just a hat...

These two really like each other...

New friends

The Best Night!

Back closer to when it all began 😄

Friday Afternoon

March 17th, 2017

This afternoon Joell and I took our dinghy 2 miles south to the McLarty Treasure Museum

This museum is on the site of the 1715 Spanish Plate Fleet salvaging camp.  The site is designated as a National Historical Landmark.  The fleet encountered a large hurricane on its way to Spain, from Mexico and South America.  Some 1500 survivors struggled ashore, set up camps and sent for help from Spanish colonies in St. Augustine and Cuba.  The Spanish salvaged the wreck sites for 4 years.  In the 1960's the wrecks were rediscovered and salvage operations commenced.  Many original artifacts are on display at the McLarty Treasure Museum.  

At the museum overlook of Atlantic

Some of the displayed gold pieces at the museum...

Replica coins, we purchased, of the 1715 Fleet of which millions are still out there not far from shore...

Closest we have gotten to finding gold, so far.  

The curator stated we could probably find something on the beach today, since we had such strong force winds for the last few days.  If someone finds a relic on the sand, it is theirs.  Found any where in the water, Florida gets a cut, unless you kick it up on the sand when nobody is looking.  

Friday

March 17th, 2017

Happy Saint Patrick's Day

Another de-masted sailboat hard aground...

Threw over the lobster trap last evening and pulled it up this morning...

Can you eat Star Fish???

We tossed them back, gently...

These crabs are going to make for a lite dinner...

Oh, thank goodness, we don't have to share...

these are the size of a half dollar...

Our bait (old fish we caught) and Mr. Star Fish

Generator was getting hard to start and didn't sound quite right..

Changed both spark plugs and the water impeller which was missing two fins...

After pulling the pump and hoses and fishing in the heat exchanger we found the broken fins and a piece from a past one...

Sounds and Runs just great now!!!  7.3 K Watt Kohler Generator...nice little unit..

Thursday 

3/16/2017

We are currently anchored near Sebastian Inlet State Park, Florida, in a nice cove, protected from the nasty north winds.  Early this morning, the Loggerhead marina temperature readings were 39 degrees.  Wisconsin has had a warmer winter than that.  Guess we aren't traveling back home too fast, it is pretty cold here also.  We will be staying at this anchorage at least until Sunday.  I am hoping my dear friends, Dianne and Dan Chase will be able to spend Saturday with us.  They are former Wisconsinites and welcome the cooler temperatures.