Don't know if you can see the fort in the picture to the left, but this is the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine taken from our mooring. The castle was built in 1672 by the Spaniards, and we toured it when we were here 3 years ago. Please see website:http://www.nps.gov/casa/index.htm
It is quite a treat to see it. We didn't go ashore in St. Augustine this time, but it is one of our favorite cities to visit.
Floridians who have swimming pools tend to enclose them with high screened-in enclosures (to keep out bugs and other vermin) . See picture at left. Some of them are 2 and 3 stories high and tend to block out the beauty of the house - of course this is the back side of the house.
We motored 48 nautical miles today, and we are at a marina in Daytona Beach. It reached 70 today but seemed chilly on the water with the stiff wind. Dinner is on board tonight. Our bananas are getting overripe, so I was forced to make a batch of banana dacquiris, which we enjoyed in the cockpit. We don't have the heat on for the first time since Friday - maybe in the morning.
Our plan is to reach Ft. Lauderdale by Friday or Saturday and spend a few days there. We will be seeing Tony & Lynn (my brother & sister-in-law) early next week, as coincidentially they will be staying in a hotel near our marina, before they head out on a cruise ship. On Tuesday Joe & Kathy Burke fly into Ft. Laud to join us. After we provision the boat, we will head down to Miami and then across to the Bahamas.
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