Nursing the sick in St Petersburg

Mary and I attended a boaters’ dinner at Grazzi, a local Italian restaurant, at the invitation of Trawler and Trawlering listee, Joe Pica and his wife Punk. Attending were a number of their cruising acquaintances who are here in the area and getting ready to head off in various directions.


I had trekked around the yacht basin earlier in the day to visit Joe on their very fine Great Harbor 37. I enjoyed looking around the immaculate and almost new boat and talking about all things boat with Joe.

Unfortunately, Mary fell victim to a stomach virus early Friday, which laid her low with all the horrible symptoms at both ends of her body. I have been pushing her to consume whatever liquids, and Jim and Jackie have provided appropriate meds, advice, and food item, and they fed me dinner last night. This morning she may be starting to come out of it saying she’d take a shower and consume a bit of applesauce.

As for the weather for our anticipated crossing, Monday is now not looking as good as the several succeeding days of next week, which is good because Mary will likely need all of Sunday to get established on the road to recovery. Thus, hopefully, Monday will be an easy travel day through the calm ICW along the coast west of this St Petersburg peninsula heading toward our jumping off anchorage near Anclote Key/Tarpon Springs.