Brucie the Prius

It shooore is handy having Brucie the Prius here.  Today we tooted around in the car taking a leisurely drive through the area to check out some marinas south of here for our next month-long stay.

And I'm glad we did.  We had a tentative reservation at a marina we'd found on Active Captain (an online interactive cruising guide, https://activecaptain.com).  After driving down there for a visit, we were both disappointed with what we saw.  The pool was shut down for three months, there was tons of construction going on and it was far away from everything.  Three strikes.

We've been here at Marker One Marina in Dunedin for two weeks. During that time there has not been another weather window for those waiting to cross the Gulf of Mexico and Loopers have been piling up in Carrabelle, waiting to cross.  Well, it looks like tonight's the night.  A bunch of them will make the overnight crossing tonight and join us here on the other side.  Best of luck to those of you out there.  Stick together.  Our thoughts will be with you!

On another note, for those readers in the planning stages, we did some tallying up of a few stats that we thought you might find interesting.  We've been gone for 105 days and spent just over $3000 in fuel (and our tanks are still half full).  We've stayed thirty-three nights at marinas and most of those have been special rates or deals.  The rest of the time has been at anchor or at free docks/walls. Not too bad. Very economical living. And, we've had well over 11,000 page reads on this blog.  Thanks for reading!  We're glad to have you aboard.

Note the picture of the bird eating a fish on top of a pole, we were enthralled to watch as the poor little fish was still flopping as the bird was picking at it.  Ewe.