Day 2 on the Trek South. Gasparilla
Venice to Gasparilla. Another
calm flat windless day of motoring.
Yesterday we arrived in Venice to the City dock about 4pm
and managed to tie up with only ONE broken nav light. (another one bites the dust) The Starboard light took a direct hit with a
piling and ‘barely’ broke off. It could
be fixable, but we are day sailing and not worrying about it now. I’ll check it when I can. [*Note:
Dad the nav lights are required for night-time sailing which we
wont be doing on this trip. I’ll either
fix it or replace it once we reach Marathon and have access to a West Marine
store.]
The dock last night was a FREE city dock adjacent to a city
park – WITH bathrooms. (a luxury that
cruisers don’t take for granted.) We
tied up and had a nice walk for exercise.
Gotta keep my girlish figure!
This morning we were at extreme low tide and had to wait
till about 9am to get enough clearance to depart our dock. Then we motored all the way down here to
Gasparilla. We saw some dolphin off our
bow and LOTS of flat water. Now we are
at anchor ‘near’ the ICW and awaiting 8am to start out transit down the ICW to
Ft Myers for tomorrow night.
Gotta run now to cook some Pork Loin in the pressure
cooker. YUM! Pirates eat well. Xo Skip
