Old Friends, New Friends

Old friends, New friends

I had my friend Kim, (our horse trainer from Michigan) down in the area visiting her Mom and Dad with her kids.

We found an anchorage in Bimini Basin with a park where the kids could play and we could meet for a picnic and go for ice cream across the street.  It was the perfect location.  Scott gave dinghy rides to those who wanted to go.  Her kids are getting so big so fast.  It was great spending the day with them.

 

I had lost track of Janice a friend from high school. I happened to see her on facebook and we reconnected via Facebook a few months ago and made plans to connect when we got to her neck of the woods in Cape Coral Florida. We met for lunch and it was like we never missed a day.  I love friendships like that.  We ended up picking up Scott from the boat and went back to Janice’s and met her husband.  He is a great guy, oh and his name is Guy. 😉 We ordered chinese and talked the evening away.  It was so good to reconnect. Thanks Janice and Guy for a great evening!

Janice (duChane) Lodico and me.
We dinghied out to the boat so Janice could see it.

If you have been following us, you know we spend a lot of time at anchor.  That has posed a little power shortage.  We haven’t been running long days traveling, so there hasn’t been enough time to charge our batteries.  We have a generator, but it’s is noisy and we’re finding we had to run the  genny for quite a few hours.  With plans to anchor mostly in the Keys and the Bahamas, we decided to invest in solar panels. The logistics of doing that while traveling was a bit of a problem until we connected with Kitty Nicolai. She is a Harbor Host and darn good one at that.  Harbor Hosts are people scattered all over the US to help us Loopers.  Kitty was willing to have us ship all the panels and hardware to her house prior to our arrival.  She lives on canal and offered us to use her dock to do the installation. She is our new friend.  What a gracious, friendly, knowledgeable and fun to be around gal.  We are enjoying food drink and camaraderie as well getting our solar panels installed.  We hope to have to project finished today.  We will spend the night and most of tomorrow with her and say a sad goodbye. Kitty will be one of those people we will not forget and expect to see her again someday.

Our gracious host Kitty and us standing by her beautiful pool.

Scott standing precariously on the edge of the flybridge installing the panels. Yikes.
Here’s to new friends.
Look at that. 11.4 amps being produced and it isn’t even peak sun time.
Here’s the solar panels almost finished being installed.
Our Boat at Kitty’s dock.
Kitty’s beautiful pool. We had a wonderful swim in this heated luxury.

Thanks for reading,

Karen and Scott

Unique random photo of the day.

These are my Grandpuppies. Bella on left Reily on the right. They made the photo of the day because have you ever seen two dogs with more unique ears. Sooo cute.