Day 15 – April 13

Happy Friday the 13^th.  Nothing on tap today so Beth is doing a few things and I am off for another walk to pick up some things at Publix.  Lacking a vehicle (car, bike, etc.) limits the amount of stuff you can bring back.  Beth asks if there is a way to get to the beach so I stop and ask how we can dingy to the beach.  It turns out that there is creek that leads to the beach is just off our bow, so I pack up the dingy with chairs, umbrella, and beach bag, and off we go.  It is a nice 5 to 10 minute ride, and we find a place to tie the dingy to a big rock.  We walk up through a nice park and set up camp on the beach.  No waves, and there is a ton of sea grass moving on shore.   (When we were going to Sombrero Reef, we encountered several patches offshore.)  We take the short walk up and down the beach, and there are exposed reef / rocks that remind us of the Bahamas.  There are several small fish swimming in and out of the holes in the reef / rocks.  We find rocks with fossils of old ferns.  There are gars and mullet moving in the shallows; even a small crab clinging to the sea grass. 

After the walk, we return back to the boat, which is very warm.  Up goes the hatch wind scoop which helps.  We go for showers and then run the generator to charge everything for the night.  Even with the solar panel, we still need a boost from the generator, plus we need it to heat the water for dishes.  Dinner and another sunset, although this time before the conch horns we hear bagpipes across the harbor.