St. John River

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Here I am at the Dairy Queen. What a revelation for travellers and assorted itinerant folks to have this handy service at the local fast food locations across the nations. I started at the Golden Arches but the only available plug-in was in the kiddies screaming pit, where oblivious custodial parents work their ipads while their pre-schoolers do ferral venting. I will go willingly now and choose some nice cold ice-cream concoction to show gratitude for this serene hot-spot. Ice cream is not something we connect with very often as boaters, so this is an extra pleasure. Now I'm even glad the wifi is caput at the Seafarer's marina.

A couple of days ago we found an interesting dockside community here on the Trout River, just off the St. John River, to complete our buoyancy tests. Just in time before the weather blew up a huge fright of high winds, hail and rain last night. This kept us up half the night moving fenders up and down with the tide and shifting wind, to keep the boat off the dock. There are promises of a repeat event tonight.

We've had an excellent visit with Jacksonville friends so we hope to get further north before Tropical Storm Debbie decides to make a dash across the state in our direction.

Looking forward to seeing Georgia again.







Last night was no hell with a massive front moving

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Photos

Buoyancy Test: Annie, Rich, Frank
Think we passed with flying colours.

Wonderful growing family
Thanks Jake and Corri. Perfect timing.

Moments of Reflection
On the hook at Bird Island off the St. John River

Innocent dock by day
Evil dock during a bad east wind.

Seafarer's Marina
Worthy of it's own reality show.

Frank waiting to anchor
Reminds me of a Pratt or Colville composition

Laying cable
Out of St. Augustine

Cranes and Nuclear Reactors
North East Jacksonville

Houseboat home
Nice places to hang out.

Comments

[Dorothy]

Storm Debbie
We are praying for you. Marion was in Winnipeg for a short visit recently. She satyed with us for two days and now is at her daughter, Sheila's, new home on the outskirts of the city. She will be back in Vancouver on the 27th. Bill and I will be celebrating our 30th anniversary in Quebec City from July 19 to 21.Stay safe please. Love Dorothy

[Kathryn]

Stay ahead of Debbie!
I'm looking forward to the next blog. Stay safe.

[Mike Moore]

Debbie
Hi, I have been watching the storm and it has been causing real problems on the Gulf side. Last week we had a tropical storm SE of Nova Scotia (way out to sea) turn into a class 1 Hurricane.. very unusual at the Latitude. Good Sailing, Mike