We crossed with a buddy boat, named Cork Screw. Trawler Life and Have Another Day crossed together but were going to a different customs check-in station. Our plan was to fire up the engine at 06:30. We got up at 05:30 and heard a boat fire up. We were drinking coffee, and getting ready to go when we looked and our buddy boat was pulling out. We thought they were leaving an hour early, when in fact we were an hour late. Scott set his alarm, but didn’t realize that daylight savings happened when we were in the bahamas and he never turned his phone on so it didn’t update. We scrambled and got underway with an apology to Cork Screw. We were right behind .
I fished some of the way when it wasn’t too rough, but didn’t catch anything. I was kind of okay with that because I didn’t want to have to deal with cleaning anything while underway and we had fish and lobster in the freezer. As we approached the US Scott saw a huge Hammerhead Shark chasing a fish. So cool. I missed it. We arrive about 5:30 and by the time we docked it was after 6 and our information stated that customs was closed at 6. We called first thing in the morning and got slightly reprimanded for not calling last night. Scott read him the print out from the website and suggested they update the website. His tune changed. We had to rent a car to go to the airport to check in personally. We didn’t mind renting a car, as we had a very empty boat. Off to Walmart and $300 later we have groceries, oil for oil changes, and all kinds of odds and ends we needed. We were glad to have a car. It would have taken multiple trips on our bikes. My phone had been giving me problems and wouldn’t work at all when I got back in the States. Luckily we had the car to go in to Verizon. I ended up upgrading my ancient phone. It was time.
We stayed 2 nights to recoup from our long crossing and to reprovision.
Off we went up the ICW (Intracostal Waterway) We anchored behind a small spoils island. We didn’t even drop the dinghy to go ashore. Scott’s (and my) dreamboat anchored next to us .We weren’t sure what make it was, so Scott looked it up and guess what…It’s for sale. It was a Nordhaven 46 oceangoing trawler. It had everything you could want on a boat. Bigger tanks for everything. We could go all the way to the Caribbean or South America in that boat. We both dreamed about it but our pockets aren’t that deep.
We cruised up to Cocoa Beach area and hadn’t stopped along the way. We only went into Cocoa quickly one morning to mail some things. We were in a funk. After the Bahama, Florida seemed boring. We labeled ourselves as Bahama snobs. Part of that funk was we had repairs, updates, taxes, bills etc to work on. Scott ordered a bunch of things we needed from Amazon and sent them to St Augustine our next stop. Once we get things done that we couldn’t do in the Bahama, I’m sure we will be back into the swing of things.
This is kind of a whiney blog, but I don’t want all you drinks people up north still wishing for no snow to think our life is “All Cold Drinks and Sunshine” Hee hee. The reality is, that is true most of the time.
Stay tune St Augustine is next…..
Thanks for reading.
Karen and Scott
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