Wed - Feb 26. NSB to Palm Coast

In which we battle our own virus!

We have decided to quarantine ourselves on the boat!  Rick writing today - I finally convinced Melanie to let me write an entry.  Somewhere I picked up a cold and it isn’t fun.  We don’t really see many people, but maybe on a trip to Publix or at the play in Vero Beach I picked up a cold and then promptly passed it on to Melanie. We are thankful for our medicines supplied by our faithful reader Kim.  Very helpful to have a supply of anti-histamines and decongestants to lessen the symptoms.

We woke up early (if you can call it waking up after not sleeping much) in NSB and prepared to cast off for a drive to Palm Coast Marina in Palm Coast, FL.   The weather apps showed that it would start to rain around 3 pm so to beat the rain we set off at 8:30 am for the 6 hour cruise up the coast.   I think we both feel much more comfortable on the boat now - not so worried when the water gets shallow as we know that it will most likely not go below 5 feet of depth.   We backed out of the slip without incident and set Clark (the autopilot) to help us drive.  

We had some fun visitors during the morning:


We see dolphins constantly during the day.  The almost always make a beeline directly for the boat and then disappear underneath us.   Not sure if this is playtime for them or if by driving by we may stir up some food for them.   It is always fun to see them and we never get tired of seeing them pop-up even if we may see 50 or more in a day.

The drive was mostly uneventful with only one drawbridge too low for us to go under.  The bridge tender timed our arrival perfectly and we cruised past the open bridge only slowing slightly.  The sky was filled with clouds and the wind picked up as we slowed and motored into the marina. Fortunately the marina is well protected and we were able to pull off a picture perfect docking - I’m always a little apprehensive when we leave or arrive at docks.  I’m worried about damaging our nice boat if we smack into the dock, but this time wind cooperated and we kissed the dock lightly and Melanie had us tied up in a few short minutes.   About 20 minutes later the rain started coming down. Perfect timing!   We had a restful afternoon and evening hoping to get ahead of this cold....