Thursday 2 April 2020
This morning we got underway promptly at 0700 and motored
down the waterway for an hour to Palm Coast Marine where we took on 613 gallons
of diesel in order to make us independent of further connections with land in
this area which is a hotbed of CV19 infection.
We now have enough fuel to go through the Keys and around the tip of
Florida getting to Carrabelle. And a bit
of news from Eleohn’s owner was that The Moorings Marina in Carrabelle reversed
course and called him to say that his slip will be available upon our arrival. After fueling we continued down the AICW
sightseeing all the houses and docks and boats along the way. We ended our day at 1400, early for us, in a
nice anchorage off the channel at New Smyrna Beach. Tomorrow should see us in Cocoa, about sixty
miles along. This evening was spent in
managing routes through the keys and up to Fort Myers by importing routes I
have used before down here from other files in Coastal Explorer to my Eleohn
delivery route package. In the next
couple of days as we near Stewart, I will transfer some of them to the Garmin
plotter so whatever route we are on is displayed simultaneously on the laptop
and the plotter. We have obviously given
up on the Lake Okeechobee route – we were just a month too late.
