Brunswick Landing Marina, Brunswick, Georgia

We're in the middle of a Nor'easter as you can tell by the grey skies. Three days of rain and heavy wind so far. So we decided to rent a car and head for home earlier than planned and will visit with family and friends for the next 2 weeks.

Brunswick Landing Marina is a huge marina with nice new floating docks, free laundry (important to us Loopers) and reasonable rates.

View from our bow - all the shrimp boats are in port waiting for the winds to die down.

Nearby paper mill, common in this area. You really know it's there when the wind blows if the wrong direction!

Brunswick Landing Marina, Ga

We will wait out the weather here at Brunswick Landing Marina. There is a nor'easter forming off the coast.

Mumford Creek--is it anything like Mumford Cove?

Kings Bay

Sub at Kings Bay

Kings Bay Sub base, huge drive-in submarine degaussing unit (degaussing is the process of decreasing or eliminating an unwanted magnetic field), with this great equipment how can Groton Sub Base compete!

31 09.060N

81.30.000W

Anchorage Cumberland Island, Ga

Armadillo looking for food

Wild turkey walking the grounds

Ed by the arbor

Another view of Dungeness Ruins

Mom foraging for food with cult at her side

Dungeness Ruins in background, wild horse and her cult. Dungeness was destroyed by fire

Big old live oak tree limb hitting the ground

Wild horses on the island foraging for food.

Spider web that looked intricate in the sunlight

One of the walking paths on the island. The National Park Service owns about 85% of the island.

Ferry from St. Mary's to Cumberland Island. Only means of getting to the island other than anchoring off and dinghy in. The Island has quit a history--Indians, Spanish (1500's), British, Andrew Carnegie's brother built a mansion here.

Last point of land in Florida on Amelia Island, Fort Clinch State Park

Looks like a bike race over one of the bridges along the way

30 46.171N

81 28.315W

Anchorage Pine Island

More Park

Fog just lifting in the morning as we were leaving the anchorage

Pictures of the park

Remote anchorage in State Park--lots of flys!!!

State Park area

Landmark in St. Augustine

They just fired on us from the fort in St. Augustine!

Downtown St. Augustine from the water

St. Augustine Bridge of Lions still under construction! Is this three years or more.

30 03.163N

81 21.776W

Anchorage Daytona

View from anchorage of Daytona

It was a hazy day but we think this is the second shuttle on the pad ready for take off

Said goodbye to friends and family and headed north. VAB building--missed the shuttle launch on May 12--heard there were a lot of clouds masking the shuttle. We saw it at the Villages!

29 11.773N

81 00.296W

Harbour Town Marina, Merritt Island

Going to lunch, The Villages style

Lew and Judy Geis picked us up and brought us to The Villages for some golf and fun. Pictured here are Kerry, Ed's boss from Pfizer, Kathy, his wife and Erin--now proud owners in The Villages.

Mother's Day Flowers from Barb, Neil and Bren

Mother's Day with Mom, Betty, Sue (Bretty's friend), Brooksie, Linda and Joann

Finally made it to Cocoa Beach two weeks late for Linda's sister's 70th Birthday!

About a week of family and friends time here

28 24.459N

80 40.682W

Mooring Ball, Vero Beach Muni Marina

We hooked up to a mooring ball at the Vero Beach Municipal Marina. This is our most desireable way of spending the night - secure on a mooring ball and no hassle with the anchor or tying up to a fixed dock and hooking up power lines.

27 39.715N
80 22.351W

Soverel Marina, Palm Gardens, FL

Jerry and Lyn from Sea La Vie joined us for dinner at a wonderful Italian restaurant, Carmines, right at the marina We met Jerry and Lyn for the first time in Nassau

Area surrounding the marina

Shore Thing just had a bath and got some of the salt off
26 50.779N

80 04.265W

Return to US

The pictures really do not depict the number of boats and people.

Culture shock as we turned the corner coming in the cut from the ocean. There were at least a 1000 boats and many more people at Peanut Island just inside the cut at West Palm

ICW Sugar Sands Condos in Riviera Beach

Sunrise as we were leaving the anchorage at N. Bimini

Anchorage N. Bimini

Full Circle leading the way

Sunrise at N. Bimini

Shore Thing and Full Circle buzzed by the Coastguard helicopter. Guess they wanted to read the name of the boat.

Shore Thing just leaving Chub Cay



25 45.812N

79 16.510W