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St Augustine 10-13 Apr

                                                                            


   Heading north out of New Smyrna for St Augustine this morning. Its an early departure to make sure we can make it even if the current is against us. Through the northern causeway bridge at 0730 on another sunny day. Light winds behind us will help us along.


   Daytona now has two of the prettiest bridges along the ICW. This new bridge has decorative rock faces along the supports (versus flat concrete). The next bridge up has ocean blue mosaic tiles on the lower supports. 

   Made it to our mooring ball with no problem. We'll be staying here for 3 days waiting for a front to pass through with strong winds. Looks like we'll spend tomorrow onboard the boat all day, no need to get all wet riding to shore in the big waves.

   Next day update - the front blew through today. Thankfully the two tornados in the front passed us by, one to the north and one to the south of us. We just had thunderstorms with a bit of lightning, but none close.


      A stop in St Augustine now means a trip over to Sailor's Exchange, the secondhand boating store owned by Johnathan and Sammy Joe. We needed to pick up a few things including discount mooring lines as a couple of ours chafed through on the trip. 



     St Augustine also means a trip to Aldi's for fresh produce. Sue does the 5-mile hike for the exercise. This time she may have overestimated the volume and got a good arm and back workout as well as her legs. 


   The Spanish replica tall ship of one of Magellan's vessels was back in town at St Augustine. We toured this ship a couple years ago. The crew told us it was a terrible ride on the open ocean, rolling and yawing all over. Nothing like the tea clippers that came 250 years later.

   As you can see, the great weather was back after the frontal passage. Time to move on north.