December 3, 2019 - December 8, 2019
We opted to stay in St. Augustine two more days so I had some time to enjoy the area. The weather was chillier than I expected but bright and sunny. One morning we woke up to 32 degrees, but the sun warmed us up by mid morning. We had lunch a Pizza Time (voted the 2nd best pizza in the US by Travelocity) a couple of times and I purchased two large bags of popcorn from Kernal Poppers on St. George Street. I like a mix of cheese and salt and vinegar. Yum! St. Augustine is a destination for Christmas lights. Our last fall here we took the trolley tour one evening. This year we enjoyed the lights on our excursions into town. Besides fun we had some chores to complete - laundry, grocery shopping, and hauling jugs of water from the fuel dock to the boat. Our first trip for water (six gallon jug) proved to be too heavy for me to lift up to the deck of the boat from the dinghy and it slipped from my hands into the water. In my frenzy to save it I almost went in the water too. Fortunately, I only got my whole arm wet.
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| A lovely courtyard in St. Augustine |
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| A friendly egret that I watched fishing for his meals. |
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| The alter of the Basilica of St. Augustine built 1793-1797 is located on Cathedral Street. |
On Saturday morning we left St. Augustine at 7:00 am. We were on a mooring ball and all I had to do is pull the line out of the loop on the mooring ball - no anchor muck to clean up and only one line to coil up - easy peasy! We motored down the water way for seven hours passing through several high bridges and three opening bridges with no hold ups. We docked at Halifax Harbor Marina in Daytona Beach at 3:00 pm and relaxed until the boat parade at 6:30 pm.
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| This small boat was decorated with six trees. |
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| A larger fishing boat decorated to the hilt |
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| And my favorite ... the lights say "Seas & Greetings". |
On Sunday, Bob noticed that our life line gate had come off and fallen in the water. He tried to locate it and bring it up with a net to no avail. Our neighbor in the marina offered to drive us into the West Marine to buy the components for making a new one. Unfortunately West Marine did not have what we needed so Bob decided to have a diver come in on Monday to retrieve the gate. We’ll see how that goes.
We took a bike ride to Caribbean Jack's for a great seafood lunch. Daytona Beach's season is from Memorial Day to Labor Day so many restaurants and shops weren't open at this time of year.
I spent some time decorating the boat for Christmas.
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| Here's my Christmas galley towel! |
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